J. Virginia Lincoln collection, 1920-1939.

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J. Virginia Lincoln collection, 1920-1939.

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This collection contains a series of photographs depicting stages of assembly of dirigibles in various hangers and of dirigibles being launched which are dated from the 1920's to 1930's. Other photos consist of the Hindenberg Investigation Panel, seven Air Corps Chiefs, Air Corps Staff from World War I, and of Major General Jacob Fickel with Charles Lindberg at March Field in 1939.

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US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7974555

US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library

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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-...

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Fickel, Jacob E. , 1883-1956.

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Lincoln, J. Virginia, 1915-2003.

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J. Virginia Lincoln was born in 1915, graduated from Wellesley College in 1936 and Iowa State in 1938. As a physicist, she joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1942 and moved to Boulder, Colorado and the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory in 1954. She was a space weather pioneer and became known for her work with A. G. McNish and "sunspot cycle predictions." Lincoln continued to work in Boulder and was Chief of several different environmental agencies until she retired in 1981. J. Virgin...