Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 take off flight from New York to Paris -heroic entrepreneur, fascinating film

Charles Lindbergh remains one of America’s most admired entrepreneurs. This “painstakingly assembled news footage from five cameras that filmed Lindbergh’s takeoff from Roosevelt Field, Long Island” and “mixed … with enhanced audio from the same newsreel sources” is a rare view of this moment, according to Win Perkins, a real estate appraiser who specializes in airport properties, and who has posted this footage in four parts on his website.
http://www.airportappraisals.com  

The site opens on episode #3, ready to play. It is best to click on “Contact” to the left and select #1, then watch the films in order, #1 through #4.

Think of Lindbergh’s courage and persistence that finally achieved the moments memorialized in these films.

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