Lindbergh Gallery

Welcoming Captain Lindbergh at Aero Club Dinner by Hynes

Caricatures of members of the Aero Club giving a dinner for Captain Charles Lindbergh following his record-breaking trans-Atlantic flight in May 1927. From left, Sir Philip Sassoon, Lt.-Com. Mackenzie Grieve, Hawker's navigator on his unsuccessful transatlantic flight, T. N. Stack, who flew to India in a Moth, Captain Lindbergh, Mr Harry Preston, Lord Thomson, ex-Minister for Air, Captain H. S. Broad, who won the King's Cup of 1926, Mr F. Handley Page, Captain F. T. Courtney, the well-known test pilot who was prominently associated with helicopter experiments, Sir Alan Cobham, Sir Hugh Trenchard, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker and Baron E. K. Palmstierna, the Swedish Ambassador. Date: 1927

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Wife of the aviator Charles Lindbergh, whom she married in 1929. The first licensed woman glider pilot in the U.S.A. and an accomplished author. Date: 1906 - 2001

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1906, 1929, 2001, Accomplished, Anne, Author, Aviator, Charles, Costume, Glider, Licensed, Lindbergh, Married, Micro Phone, Morrow, Pilot, Us A, Wife, Woman

Richard Byrds attempt to fly the Atlantic

The Fokker Trimotor aeroplane, America, in which the American aviator and naval officer Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957) attempted to fly the Atlantic non-stop from the USA to France in the hope of winning the Orteig Prize. Unfortunately, during a practice takeoff the plane crashed, severely injuring a co-pilot and slightly injuring Byrd. While the plane was being repaired, Charles Lindbergh won the prize

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