News Journal archives Lindbergh, Bonnie and Clyde, Golden Gate Bridge


“Pages of history” features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News and the Evening Journal.

May 23, 1927, Wilmington Morning News

Lindbergh felt peril worst at landing; hero describes flight and gale after fine start

PARIS – Captain Charles A. Lindbergh, sheltered in his country’s embassy from a world filled with praise of him, awoke this afternoon from a sound ten hour sleep, seemingly innocent of the fact that the whole earth was eager to honor his exploit of flying alone from New York to Paris.

Soon after he had breakfast, the courageous and charming young man from the middlewest telephoned his mother in far away Detroit. It was the first time a private telephone call had linked France with America, but it was only one of many precedents that the world set today in this general desire to show its admiration for the sandy haired, soft spoken aviator, who made the trans-Atlantic flight in his little monoplane and in solitary glory….

“All the way up the American coast to Newfoundland we had uncommonly good weather – lots better than we expected. But for the next 1,000 miles it couldn’t have been much worse for us,” Lindbergh said.

At this juncture Ambassador Myron T. Herrick remarked, “When Lindbergh says ‘we,’ he means the ship and himself.”

“After we got away from land,” Lindbergh continued, “we ran into fog, then into rain, then hail. Sometimes we flew not more than ten feet above the water, and the highest was 10,000 feet. We went up that high to try to get above the storm, but the average altitude for the whole second 1,000 miles of the flight was less than 100 feet.”…



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