1927 SAME-DAY newspaper front page - CHARLES LINDBERGH lands in PARIS  in the 1st TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT in his airplane 'SPIRIT of ST. LOUIS'.  LINDBERGH made the flight in 30 hours and 39 minutes after taking off from NEW YORK. RARE in that this is a same-day account.

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SEE PHOTO-----ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGE, the Milwaukee Leader (Milw., WI), dated May 21, 1927, with large BANNER HEADLINE, LARGE PHOTO of LINDBERGH and his 'SPIRIT of SAINT LOUIS', and a long, detailed article of the historic flight with a time-by-time encapsule of where he was at certain points along his trip. This edition is RARE as it is a SAME DAY news account of the landing in Paris. Most accounts were printed in the May 22 editions!

DISPLAYABLE 1927 SAME-DAY newspaper front page with BANNER HEADLINE and historic photographs of CHARLES LINDBERGH and the SPIRIT of ST. LOUIS after the 1st TRANSATLANTIC airplane flight from NEW YORK to PARIS!

Six well-known aviators had already lost their lives in pursuit of the Orteig Prize when Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on his successful attempt in the early morning of Friday, May 20, 1927. Prior to fueling The Spirit, Lindbergh's crew had strained and restrained the Shell Aviation fuel to eliminate as much sediment as possible. This was to prevent any fuel line blockages during the flight. Burdened by its heavy load of 450 U.S. gallons of gasoline weighing about 2,710 lb, and hampered by a muddy, rain-soaked runway, Lindbergh's Wright Whirlwind-powered monoplane gained speed very slowly as it made its 7:52 am takeoff run, but its J-5C radial engine still proved powerful enough to allow the Spirit to clear the telephone lines at the far end of the field "by about twenty feet [six meters] with a fair reserve of flying speed". Over the next 33.5 hours, he and the Spirit—which Lindbergh always jointly referred to as "WE"—faced many challenges, including skimming over both storm clouds at 10,000 ft  and wave tops at as low at 10 ft, fighting icing, flying blind through fog for several hours, and navigating only by the stars (whenever visible), and dead reckoning before landing at Le Bourget Airport at 10:22 pm on Saturday, May 21. The airfield was not marked on his map and Lindbergh knew only that it was some seven miles northeast of the city. He initially mistook the airfield for some large industrial complex with bright lights spreading out in all directions. The lights were, in fact, the headlights of tens of thousands of cars all driven by eager spectators now caught in "the largest traffic jam in Parisian history.

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