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[Texas Ranger]

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Subject: Charles Lindbergh's flight

Win Perkins, a real estate appraiser who specializes in airport properties, has posted on his Web site a video he created of Charles Lindbergh's famous and risky takeoff in the Spirit of  St. Louis  .   According to Perkins, this is unlike any other presentation of the takeoff footage. Perkins said he "painstakingly assembled news footage from five cameras that filmed Lindbergh's takeoff from Roosevelt Field,  Long Island  " and "mixed it with enhanced audio from the same newsreel sources."

This is one of the most interesting videos I've seen come over the Internet. When you click on the address, episode #3 comes up ready to play.
I suggest you first click on  "Contact" to the left and select #1, then watch them in order, #1 through #4. I was glued to the screen through all 4.
What guts it took for Lindbergh to overcome the odds against him and accomplish this amazing feat.                     

http://www.airportappraisals.com/
Select "Contact" after each clip to choose the next.

[CLL]

No way would I have that many valves and have to remember which go which way. I can't remember my name half the time. 

[scsmith42]

Great series of video's; thanks for sharing.  Well worth the time to watch.

[fishpharmer]

TR, thank you sir.  Those videos are a fantastic glimpse of history.  Incredible to realize that aviation has come so far in less than a hundred years.  Everyone should watch this.

[Warren]

TR,

Way Cool...  Forwarded the link to several friends who are motor/propeller heads.  Thank you for sharing !

-w-

[Chuck White]

Very Nice videos

Question:  How many of you were holding your breath when he was trying to get airborne before running out of runway?

[Texas Ranger]

I have an interest in Lindbergh, my father gassed his aircraft in St. Louis when Lindbergh was flying airmail, and my father stayed in the aircraft business for 65 years.  He was disappointed when I decided to go to the woods rather than the aircraft engineer route.  I have a picture of one of the first air refuelings  back in those days, a hose dropped from one biplane to another, with a dude in the rear seat pumping a hand pump.

I made the right decision for me, and he finally accepted the fact.