General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. ROMANCE OF FLYINGlt;*gt;

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. ROMANCE OF FLYINGlt;*gt;

1930-1931

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1) CU Three-engine Junker warmed up to take off.2) MS Junker in flight.3) MS Double pontoon Dornier-Wal plane.4) MS Dornier-Wal taxies and takes off.5) CU Model enlarged seaplane.6) CU Several naval amphibious type seaplanes taking off and landing.7) CU Lindbergh"s "Spirit of St. Louis" being wheeled out of hangar.8) CU Lindbergh in the cockpit about to take off.9) CU Take-off of the plane.10) GV "Spirit of St. Louis" in flight followed by the bi-plane.11) CU Spirit of St. Louis lands.12) CU Lindbergh climbs out of the plane to the ground.13) CU Captured barrage balloon to which is attached a motor basket takes off.14) GV USS LOS ANGELES being wheeled out of the hangar.15) LS-CU USS LOS ANGELES being fastened to a mooring mast (SV).16) MS USS LOS ANGELES leaving the mooring mast and is in flight.17) CU Control bridge; several views of the superstructure; chief walks on catwalk.18) LS USS LOS ANGELES in flight.19) GV USS LOS ANGELES is moored in the hangar.20) CU Captured balloon is set afire by the Navy aircraft.QUALITY: FAIR

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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-...