Charles Lindbergh's flight

[Ragwing]

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."

The default is episode #3

I suggest you first click on "Contact" to the left and select #1, then watch them in order, #1 through #4.
What courage it took for Lindbergh to overcome the odds against him and accomplish this amazing feat.
The takeoff in #3 had me wondering about his sanity.... YIKES

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[cotejy]

The takeoff in #3 had me wondering about his sanity...

He was definitively insane. Out of the 6 "consideration" he had to deal with, some of them would have been a no go for me by themself and this guy had all six. The only reason he his a hero is because he was both lucky and insane. The difference between Charles and the list of "killed while trying" in the first part is luck. Comon, 1000 pounds overweight, 7 knots tail wind, muddy runway, engine not running smoothly, carb heat on, ...