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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Back Page- Lucky Lindy and the Flaming Coffin
The Chicago Tribune has a picture and interesting facts about a subject every Sunday in the Tribune Magazine.
The May 20th one had a picture taken at Chicago's Municipal Airport, now Midway, in 1927. It shows the Spirit of St. Louis, piloted by one Charles Lindbergh, after it landed.
After his famous trans-Atlantic flight, he was an international hero and every city wanted him to visit. This was his visit to Chi-Town which had a legitimate claim to him as he flew the Chicago-St. Louis air mail route for a year and a half before flying across the Atlantic.
"Flaming Coffins"- what the air mail planes were called and aptly so.
"Lucky Lindy"- the name he got from his two emergency parachute jumps.
77%- the percentage of the first 40 air-mail pilots killed in crashes.
5- the number of sandwiches he carried on his 33 and a half hour trans-Atlantic flight
Jitterbug- the new name of the Lindy Hop because of his pre-WWII isolationist stand.
It's A Lindy Thing. --RoadDog
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