Collier W. Baird collection 1927

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Collier W. Baird collection 1927

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1764

The Collier W. Baird Collection contains the film, "Lucky Lindbergh," which documents Charles Lindbergh's departure from and return to the United States during the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.

0.5 linear foot

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351642

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...