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."

Click on "CONTACT" to the left and select #1, then watch them in order, #1 through #4.

http://www.airportappraisals.com/

Very cool Gump, thanks for the link. I visited his grave in Hana couple years back, was very powerful. Side story, Lindbergh's cross atlantic flight was supposed to be made on #1, instead it was done on #2 spirit of st-Louis. Number one ended up coming to the Yukon "Queen of the Yukon" and took care of mail,cargo & Pax for many years. A replica is hanging in the Yukon Transportation Museum which is located at the airport, the original is back at the smithsonian...would like to see it one day. - BCT

This is the 7th time this has been posted on this site. Oh, well, probably time to watch it again, anyway!

For a slow reader , the text whizzes by too quickly Made watching the video annoying

Well, they say history repeats itself and what better history to repeat. Some people new to the site probably don't look through archives and some older can't remember the six posts before, including me.

The Spirit of St.Louis was first hung in the old red building next to the castle at the Smithsonian. Paul Garber was the director then. Garber wrote an article (don't recall where - maybe in AOPA or Flying Magazine) about an elderly Lindberg asking to visit the plane. Garber met him after hours and helped him climb up to the cockpit. Lindberg sat there for about half an hour. He pointed out some notes and calculations written in pencil on the bulkhead and described what each meant.
That story still moves me. The plane is now hung in the downtown DC Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Every airman should visit that museum.

I for one had not caught that video before, thanks.
I also was unaware that the Spirit was actually #2.

dirtstrip wrote:Well, they say history repeats itself and what better history to repeat. Some people new to the site probably don't look through archives and some older can't remember the six posts before, including me.

The point is that before posting something you think is cool, do a quick search to make sure it hasn't already been posted. If it has, join in the discussion in progress and bump the thread to the top. That way we all get to see all the discussion from everyone in a single thread, rather than having multiple orphaned threads.

I have even been reprimanded by Mountainmatt for this, and I took my lashes. Minor infraction.

The story is one of the best though. I just saw the Spirit (replica?) at San Diego Air and Space 2 weeks ago.

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Thanks to Gump though for at least naming this thread properly. No harm.