Charles Lindbergh, 1902–1974

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Aviation and astronautics were once my prime interests. As a student pilot, at the age of 20, when aviation was much more dangerous than it is today, I concluded that if I could fly for ten years before being killed in a crash, I would be willing to trade an ordinary lifetime for that experience. In the ’30s, I assisted Robert Goddard, the father of spatial conquests. (more…)

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Charles Lindbergh, 1902–1974

Editor’s Note:

From the vantage point of the present, it seems almost impossible that the following article could appear in a popular magazine like Reader’s Digest. Yet it did appear in November 1939–within the lifetime of many of those living today. (more…)