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Charles Lindbergh Anne Morrow Lindbergh CHARLES AUGUSTUS AND ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH CHARLES LINDBERGH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH 1010 CE Eilmer of Malmesbury, a monk, strapped wings to his hands and feet and leaped from the 80-foot west tower of his abbey, breaking both legs at the end of his 200-meter glide and acquiring several important items of information about heavier-than-air flight: the importance of flight insurance, the fact that the pilot always arrives first at the scene of an accident, the need for a long runway, etc. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH HDT WHAT? INDEX ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH 1742 There was war between France and England. When Jean-François Boyvin de Bonnetot, Marquis de Bacqueville leaped from the roof of his home adjacent to the Seine River with apparatuses resembling petals strapped to arms and legs, he managed to glide to a relatively safe plunge in the water. When he repeated the glide, however, he collided with the barge of a washerwoman, breaking an arm. (Well, but we notice that the Marquis didn’t attempt anything utterly inane such as participation in warfare!) HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 1902 February 4, Tuesday: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, of Swedish, English, Irish and Scottish ancestry to Charles August Lindbergh, a lawyer, and Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, a teacher. The infant was blonde and blue-eyed, of course (else his life trajectory would have been very different). HDT WHAT? INDEX ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT March: Charles Lindbergh, Jr.’s parents returned to their home in Little Falls, Minnesota with 5-week-old Charles. Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 1903 December 17, Thursday: At 10:35AM it was Orville Wright’s turn to try out “Flyer I” with its 4-cylinder engine constructed by Charles Taylor at the Wright Brothers bicycle shop. At Kill Devil Hill, 6 kilometers south of Kitty Hawk, he made a successful takeoff into a 20-22-mph wind, stayed aloft for 12 seconds covering a distance of 44 meters, and made a successful landing. By the 4th flight that morning, with Wilbur aboard, the aircraft stayed aloft for 59 seconds, and when it landed, it was 852 feet from its launch rail. That evening they sent a telegram from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to their father in Dayton, Ohio, letting him know that his sons had succeeded in powered flight and asking him to “inform press.” The reaction of the press was to embellish the story à la Jules Verne for its humor potential. Nobody was credulous and nobody was willing to come watch as humans flew. They were making their flights in plain sight with no attempt at secrecy whatever — and they were quite invisible. HDT WHAT? INDEX ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH 1906 June 22, Friday: Anne Spencer Morrow was born in Englewood, New Jersey. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT November: Charles Lindbergh, Jr.’s father was elected to represent Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District in the US House of Representatives. LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 1909 July 25, Sunday: Louis Charles Joseph Blériot crossed the English Channel in a monoplane (the channel had previously been crossed by an unmanned balloon in 1784 and then by a manned balloon in 1785). HDT WHAT? INDEX ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH 1910 March 8, Tuesday: Raymonde de Laroche became the 1st licensed female pilot. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 1918 May 15, Wednesday: Finnish troops completed the conquest of Karelia. Turkish forces invaded Alexandropol to the northwest of Yerevan. Stiff Armenian resistance allowed thousands of civilians to escape. Many of the very 1st airmail stamps were accidentally printed with the plane inverted and these faulty stamps have since become prized collector’s items. However, the pilot on the initial Washington DC/New York City flight on this day lost his way (no, he hadn’t been flying upside down), ran out of fuel, landed in Maryland — and was forced to send on his precious mail pouch by train. In a nationwide effort, US officials rounded up 80 suspected anarchists. June 15, Saturday: Charles Lindbergh, Jr. received his high school diploma in Little Falls, Minnesota. The Austrian offensive at Asiago on this day and the following day would be defeated by a combined British and French force. HDT WHAT? INDEX ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH 1919 May 31, Saturday: A Curtiss NC-4 flying boat of the US Navy under the command of Albert Read landed in Plymouth, England after a 4,526-mile transatlantic journey from Rockaway, New York, stopping along the way in Newfoundland, the Azores, and Portugal. The flight time, spread over 23 days, amounted to almost 54 hours (the longest hop had been between Newfoundland the Azores — 1,200 miles in more than 15 hours). June 15, Sunday: Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown of the United Kingdom landed their Vickers Vimy bomber to Derrygimla Bog in Clifden, Ireland after a journey of 1,960 miles over the Atlantic waves from St. John’s, Newfoundland (this initial non-stop transatlantic flight had lasted 16 hours and 12 minutes). Incidental music to Claudel’s (after Aeschylus) play Les Choëphores, by Darius Milhaud was performed for the initial time, in a concert setting, in Paris. Nuit de Walpurgis classique op.38, a symphonic poem by Charles Koechlin, was performed for the initial time, in Salle Gaveau, Paris. Horatio Parker’s cantata A.D. 1919, to words of Hooker, was performed for the initial time, at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, in memory of students and alumni of Yale killed in the Great War. July 2, Wednesday: Major George Herbert Scott of the Royal Air Force’s airship R34 landed at Mineola on Long Island from RAF East Fortune, Scotland, about 3,000 statute miles in about four and a half days (their return flight to RNAS Pulham, England would consume 75 hours). HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 1920 Fall: Charles Lindbergh, Jr. began studies in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH 1921 June 15, Wednesday: Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman became the 1st licensed African-American aviator. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 1922 February 2, Thursday: Having flunked classes in machine design, mathematics, and physics at the University of Wisconsin, Charles Lindbergh, Jr. was expelled. Eventually he would obtain employment with the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation. June 17, Saturday: Lieutenant Commander Sacadura Cabral and Commander Gago Coutinho arrived in Rio de Janeiro from Lisbon after crossing the Atlantic Ocean using three Portuguese Fairey IIID floatplanes (they had needed to ditch twice along the way). HDT WHAT? INDEX ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH 1923 Spring/Summer: Charles Lindbergh, Jr., who had become a pilot, barnstormed his way through “Ohiowa,” amusing the rubes. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 1924 March: Charles Lindbergh enlisted in the Army Air Service and began training. He would graduate 1st in his class from the Army’s Advanced Flying School and be commissioned as a 2d Lieutenant. Then, at loose ends because few squadrons needed new pilots, he would head for St. Louis and go to work as a test pilot, barnstormer, stunt flyer, and mail pilot. April 6, Sunday: The 1st aerial circumnavigation of the globe, more than 27,553 miles in 175 days, began in Seattle, Washington. A team of aviators of the United States Army Air Service, precursor of the United States Air Force took off in four aircraft and flew toward Alaska. Three of the planes made it on this initial leg of the journey. The other three planes would continue along the Aleutian Island chain, across Japan, Korea, the coast of China, Hong Kong, French Indochina, Thailand, Burma, India, the Middle East, and across Europe. In Italy, the Fascists won the elections by a two/thirds majority. June 23, Monday: Russell Maughan flew in a Curtis pursuit plane from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes dawn to dusk. July 14, Monday: The team of aviators of the United States Army Air Service involved in a aerial circumnavigation of the globe brought their three remaining planes down at an airstrip near Paris. From there they would fly to London and across the north of England. August 3, Sunday: The team of aviators of the United States Army Air Service involved in a aerial circumnavigation of the globe were attempting a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in their three remaining planes when one of the planes was forced down. While being towed by a light cruiser of the US Navy, it capsized and sank. The remaining two aircraft went on across the Atlantic Ocean via Iceland and Greenland, and would arrive in Nova Scotia.
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