storms His carburetor heater that s supposed to prevent engine icing in wet and cold conditions is permanently set to the on position After 17 hours he even falls asleep and only wakes up again by ocean spray entering through the side window It s actually hard to believe that he was even able to fall asleep considering the somewhat jittery performance of his Spirit of St Louis that s difficult to control due to neces sary modifications at the rear But there are more things that cause problems for Lindbergh such as hallucinations After 22 hours of non stop flying he sees mirages Lindbergh only starts seeing reality again when he starts seeing real land the south western coast of Ire land Across Southern England and Normandy he flies to Paris where flooded with euphoria he flies an extra circle around the well lit Eiffel Tower Lindbergh allegedly even considered fly ing on to Rome because there was still enough fuel in the tank but fortunately chose not to do so Who knows if he would have received an equally enthusiastic welcome in Italy as he did in Paris If one took no chances one would not fly at all Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes Charles A Lindbergh 1902 in Detroit 1974 in Hawaii What else you should know about Charles Lindbergh In 1930 Lindbergh s sister in law suc cumbed to heart disease Lindbergh was surprised that it wasn t possible to save his relative by an artificial heart He turned to Alexis Carrel a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Medicine Together they performed research to build a device enabling a heart to be kept alive in a lab oratory for several weeks Lindbergh s pump was subsequently developed fur ther by other scientists which ultimately led to the development of the first heart lung machine Lindbergh wrote several books about his flight including The Spirit of St Lou is published in 1953 for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 As a spokesman of the America First Committee AFC a movement aiming to prevent the United States from enter ing the Second World War Lindbergh held a spectacular speech in 1941 after which he was called an anti Semite In his book The Double Life of Charles A Lind bergh Lindbergh s biographer Rudolf Schröck subsequently documented that the Angel of the Skies was neither a Nazi sympathizer nor an anti Semite Fol lowing the Japanese attack on Pearl Har bor Lindbergh even flew 50 danger ous bomber missions Schröck Does a friend of fascists act in this way Lindbergh and his wife Anne Spencer Morrow had six children On March 1 1932 their son Charles III was kidnapped and subsequently murdered German immigrant Bruno Hauptmann was con victed of this crime and executed in 1936 Doubts about his guilt still exist The kill ing of the Lindbergh baby in spite of the payment of ransom inspired Agatha Chris tie to write her novel Murder on the Orient Express that was published in 1934 26

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