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Mail pilot lindberg8/3/2023 ![]() ![]() On December 14, 1927, Lindbergh took off from the U.S. Morrow wanted safer trip, flown in stages in stages to minimize the danger so he would not be responsible should something untoward would happen to “The Lone Eagle.” Lindbergh assured the ambassador that all would be well and prepared for his trip. and Mexico City, would send a dramatic and positive political message while demonstrating the impressive capabilities of the coming generation of aircraft. Lindbergh felt that a non-stop flight between the two nations’ capitals, Washington, D.C. Trippe, the president of Pan American Airways, and to help brings the Americas closer together, Lindbergh accepted. ![]() Sensing an opportunity to further advocate for commercial flight, especially since he was recently befriended by Juan T. Relations between the two neighbors were under stress over recent political and economic disagreements Morrow hoped a goodwill flight from the U.S.’s greatest hero would help calm the waters. Morrow asked Lindbergh if he could conduct a similar tour, this time to Mexico, Central America, parts of South America, and the Caribbean. Steel, and the recent chairman of the Morrow Board that examined the state of aviation in the United States. Morrow was the college friend of President Calvin Coolidge, the business partner of J.P. ambassador to Mexico Dwight Morrow in New York. He hoped to repeat his discourse on his goodwill tour of Latin America and the Caribbean.Īfter the completion of his months-long aerial tour of the country during the summer of 1927, Lindbergh was invited to meet U.S. During his subsequent aerial tour of the United States it is estimated that 1/3 of the population saw him and heard his message of the coming age of commercial air travel. A calm rational individual, Lindbergh sought to use the power of his new-found celebrity to promote his vision of a world transformed by air travel. The adulation continued throughout Europe and upon his return to the United States in June. When Lindbergh landed in Paris, he was immediately surrounded by 150,000 well wishers. Most had failed, and those that did survive, did so as wards of the state receiving either direct or indirect subsidy for their very survival. While airlines had existed since the First World War, they were unprofitable and unreliable. The obvious conclusion to millions of people was that the age of practical air travel for the public was dawning. Louis.” Although many others had crossed the Atlantic by air before this no one had done so directly between two major cities. Lindbergh, an obscure air mail pilot from Minnesota, captured the world’s imagination when he became the first person to fly non-stop, solo between New York and Paris, in his single–seat Ryan monoplane the NYP “Spirit of St. Seven months earlier, on May 21, 1927, Charles A. ![]() ![]() The crowd, including President Plutarco Calles and most of the government, were waiting for the arrival of the most famous aviator in the world, and he was two hours late. Robert van der Linden, Ph.D., Smithsonian National Air and Space MuseumĪs the afternoon sun was beginning to wane, some 200,000 excited people gathered at Valbuena airport in Mexico City were beginning to get anxious. ![]()
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