by Dan Hampton
247 “Captain Lindbergh will now partake” Berg, Lindbergh, p. 148.
247 “the wish of Washington” Davis, The Hero, p. 224.
248 “I have enjoyed every minute” New York Times, June 10, 1927.
250 “Blythe tells me everyone” Ibid., June 11.
INDEX
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Acosta, Bert, 132, 133, 171, 2 00
Aéro-Club de France, 241
Aero Club of America, 23, 180, 243
Aero Digest, 28
Aerodynamics, 49, 141
Aeromarine West Indies Airways, 254
Aeronautics Branch of Department of Commerce, 22–23
A.G. Spalding & Bros., 60
Ailerons, 49, 59, 76, 83, 275
Air Commerce Act of 1926, 22
Aircraft lighting, 23
Airfoils, 71–72, 72n, 76, 275
Air Force, U.S., xi, 265–67
Air Force Cross, 246
Airmail, 70–71, 180–84, 197–98, 212, 263–64
Air Mail Act of 1925, 181
Air Mail Service, U.S., 70–71, 180–82, 184
Air pressure, 30, 144
Air raft, 88, 158
Air resistance (drag), 61, 141–42, 178
Airspeed, 18, 201
Airspeed indicator, 19, 61, 144, 157, 172–73, 199, 275
Air temperature, 30, 77, 139–40, 140
Air travel, 254–55, 268–69
Air turbulence, 21, 93, 278
Air Union, 230, 232, 240
Albert I of Belgium, 245–46
Alcock, John “Jack,” 54–55, 95
Allen, Frederick Lewis, 125, 237–38
Altimeter, 127, 144, 156, 159, 198
America, 18n, 28, 74, 131–32, 209n, 243
America First Committee (AFC), 262–63
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 117–20
American Federation of Labor, 114
American Importer, SS, 261
American Legion, 15
American Socialist Party, 52
American Telephone & Telegraph, 41
Amundsen, Roald, 12
Anacostia Naval Air Station, 251
Anarchist bombings, 112–14
Angle of attack, defined, 275
Anti-Saloon League, 106, 108, 237
Antlers Hotel, 38
Arc de Triomphe, 232–33, 244
Argentia, 92n
Arizona flight, 85–86
Armbrust, C. W., 88–89
Armbrust cup, 88–89, 89n
Army Aeronautical Trials, 47, 54
Army Air Corps, U.S., 133
Army Air Service, U..S., 12, 133, 179–83
Army Ordnance Department, 268
Army rations, 88
Army Signal Corps, U.S., 72n, 130
Associated Press, 203
Atlantic Charter, 92n
Atlantic crossing, 126–28, 134–79, 183–89
Austria-Hungary, 48, 102–3
Autobiography of Values (Lindbergh), xi, 268
Automobiles, 103–4
Avalon Peninsula, 26, 53, 92–93
Azores, 53–54, 167, 188
Babbitt (Lewis), 115
Bahl, Erold, 178
Baie de Seine, 209
Baldwin, Stanley, 246
Bank, defined, 275
Bank of Sweden, 34, 35
Barnard College, 103
Barnstorming, 178–79, 182
Barograph, 24, 24n, 225n, 232
Barrett, Richard, 236
Battle of Guadalcanal, 266
Battle of Midway, 53n, 265
Battle of Rabaul, 266
Bay of Fundy, 67
Belgian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 246
Belgium, 48, 245–46
Bellanca, Giuseppe, 132
Bellanca WB-2, 132. See also Miss Columbia
Belle Isle, 5
Belmont Park, 128n
Bennett, Floyd, 131–32, 131n, 244
Beowulf, 34
Berardelli, Alessandro, 116–17
Berg, A. Scott, xi, 35, 45, 235, 269
Bertaud, Lloyd, 133–34
B.F. Goodrich Silvertown tires, 16, 16n
Bibliography, selected, 279–85
Birth of a Nation, The (movie), 51
Blanchard, Jean, 207
Blanchard, Walter, 239
Blasket Islands, 188–89, 188n, 205
Blériot, Louis, 207, 242
Blind flying, 138, 142–43, 218
Blom, Philipp, 109
Blythe, Richard “Dick,” 28, 130, 249, 250–51
Boats, 190
Bodmin Moor, 204n
Boedecker, Ken, 130–31
Bois de Boulogne, 214n
Bolling Field, 258–59, 259n
Bolshevik Revolution, 112
Boulevard Haussmann, 232
Boyce Motometer, 18–19
Bracile (Brasil), 168n
Bras d’Or Lake, 78
Brier Island, 65, 65n
Bristol Channel, 4, 6
Britain. See Great Britain
British Expeditionary Force, 50
British Royal Observatory, 210
Bronfman brothers, 109
Brooks, USS, 249
Brown University, 230n
Brussels Opera, 246
Bryan, William Jennings, 118–20
Bryson, Bill, 35
Buckman, Clarence Bennett, 43–44, 43n
Buckman Hotel, 43
Buford, USS, 52
Bureau of Air Commerce, 212n
Burrage, Guy, 251–52
Butler, George Washington, 117
Byrd, Harry F., 250, 257
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, x
America attempt, 18n, 23, 28, 131–32, 131n, 209n
Lindbergh’s flight, 228, 243–44, 250
Cabot Strait, 86
Cabot Tower, 97n
Calvados, 208–9
Camber, 72, 275
Camel Estuary, 202n
Cape Breton Island, 66–67, 71, 77–78, 86–87, 96
Cape Cod, 32
Cape Cod Bay, 31–32
Cape La Hague, 191, 207
Cape St. Mary’s, 65, 91
Capone, Al, 116, 260n
Carburetor, 85–86, 275
Carleton College, 44
Carrigaholt, 7, 194n
Cather, Willa, 116
Cedar Island, 25
Ceiling, defined, 275
Center of gravity (CG), 83–84
Chamberlin, Clarence, x, 23, 74, 132–34, 171, 200, 248
Champs-Élysées, 213n, 214n, 242, 244–45
Chaplin, Charlie, 110
Charles de Gaulle Airport, 217n
Chart bag, 28–29, 176, 177
Cherbourg Peninsula, 191, 208, 209, 247–48
Chiari, Rodolfo, 237
Chicago race riot of 1919, 105
Chicago Tribune, 235
Chord line, defined, 275
Christian Apostolic Church, 106
Christie, Eva Lindbergh, 37–38, 44
Christie, George W., 44
Christopher, Saint, 175
Churchill, Winston, 91–92n
Church of the Disciples of Christ, 38
Cirrus clouds, 93, 276
Clansman, The (movie), 51, 51n
Clark, Virginius, 72n
“Clark Y” wing, 72
Clavier, Charles, 16n
Clinton Bay, 25
Coli, François, 1–7, 23, 28, 76, 194n, 207, 217n, 227, 242–43
Colombo-German Air Transport Society (SCADTA), 254
Columbia, 23, 74, 132–34, 200
Columbia Aircraft Corporation, 132, 133
Columbus, Christopher, 90n
Commercial aviation, 197, 254–55, 268–69
Commonwealth Pier (Boston), 51n
Compasses. See Earth inductor compass; Magnetic compass
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nbsp; Compass heading, 26, 64, 139, 276
Compass rose, defined, 276
Conception Bay, 92, 94
Connecticut River, 29
Consolidated B-24 Liberator, 264–65
Contract Air Mail (CAM) Route 2, 181
Coolidge, Calvin, 96, 131, 236, 247, 250
Cornwall, 201–4
Cosmoline, 74, 74n
County Cork, 191, 194, 196
County Kerry, 191, 194
Course, defined, 276
“Course” vs. “heading,” 25–27
Coutinho, Gago, 3
Coutinho sextant, 3
Cowling, 74, 130, 276
Crab, 64, 71, 276
Crosswind, 220, 222
Croydon Aerodrome, 246
Cuba, 122, 254
Cumulus clouds, defined, 276
Curtin, Lawrence W., 16n
Curtiss, Glenn, 128–29
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation, 68
Curtiss Field, 13, 20, 24, 25, 128–29
Curtiss Flying Boats, 53–54
Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny,” 179, 180–81
Curtiss NC-1, 53–54
Curtiss NC-3, 53–54
Curtiss NC-4, 53–54, 131
Curtiss Oriole, 19
D’Ahetze, Jean-Claude, 229, 230
Daily Mail aviation prize, 55
Dakota War of 1862, 57
Daniel, Todd, 113–14
Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, 20, 255
Darrow, Clarence, 118–20
Davis, Kenneth, 28n
Davis, Noel, 15, 18, 133
Dead reckoning, 26, 29
Deauville, 209–11, 210–11n
De Forest, Lee, 110
Dehydration, 89n
Delage, George, 230, 232–33, 240
Delagrange, Léon, 254n
Denain, Colonel, 228
Dentistry, 39, 39n
Derrygimla Moor, 55
Détroyat, Michel, 230
Deviation, 62–63, 79, 276
Devon, 205–6
Digby, 66
Dingle Bay, 189
Disney, Walt, 104, 262
Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), 257, 257n
Distinguished Service Cross, 123
Divorce rate, 237, 237n
Dixie Highway, 58
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 51n
“Doping” fuselages, 59, 59n
Douglas Company, 68–69
Doumergue, Gaston, 241
Downwind, 220, 222
Drag, 61, 141–42, 178
Drake, Francis, 204–5
Dreiser, Theodore, 116
Drift meter, 138
Drinking water, 88–89
Drouhin, Maurice, 171
Dungarvan, 6
Dunphy, J., 6
Dutch Flats, 22, 199
Duxbury Pier Light, 31, 31n
Early, Stephen, 264
Earth inductor compass, 19, 64–65, 66, 87, 145, 147–48, 174, 276
Easton, Peter, 91n
Eddystone Lighthouse, 204
Ederle, Gertrude “Trudy,” 207
Edward VII of England, 40
Eiffel Tower, 214, 215, 217, 233
Eight-day clock, 150, 150n
Eighteenth Amendment, 107
Elevator, 174, 276
Elias Hyman & Sons, 109
Elisabeth of Belgium, 246
Élysée Palace, 228, 236, 241, 245
Emergency equipment, 87–89
Empennage, 83–84, 276
Engine technology, 49
England. See Great Britain
English Channel, 4, 191, 204, 206–7
Entente Cordiale, 48
Environmentalism, 269
Eriksson, Leif, 90, 90n
Espionage Act, 52
Étaples-sur-Mer, 50
Evere Aerodrome, 245
Everest, Wesley, 115
Fagundo, João, 90n
Farman, Henri, 254
Federal Reserve, 46, 52
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, 24, 225n
Fifteenth Amendment, 51n
First-aid kit, 28–29, 177
First Amendment, 119
Fisher, Carl Graham, 58
Fisher Island, 58n
Fishing boats, 185–87, 190
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 20, 101–2, 111, 210–11n
Flanders Field American Cemetery, 246
Flemish Cap, 90, 159
Flight of Lindbergh. See Transatlantic flight of Lindbergh
Fog, 70, 77, 127, 137, 162, 183–84
Fokker, Anthony “Tony,” 18n, 72n, 131–32
Fokker trimotor, 131–32
Fonck, René, 15–16, 16n, 28, 28n
Ford, Gerald, 262
Ford, Henry, 264–65
Fort Myer, Virginia, 47
Fort Sam Houston, 122
Fox-trot, 110–11
Fracture (Blom), 109
France
Lindbergh after flight, 226–35, 238–44
Lindbergh’s celebratory post-flight, 244–45
Lindbergh’s flight, 207–25
World War I and, 48, 102–3, 227–28
Franz Ferdinand of Austria, 48
Fredette, Raymond, 230n
French Air Force, 230
French Air Service, 2
French Legion of Honor, 123
Friends School, 47, 47n
Fuel consumption, 62, 162–63, 163n, 197–98, 200
Fuel mixture, 29–30, 277
Fuel tanks, 13–14, 20–21, 91–92, 197
Atlantic crossing, 135, 154, 163
capacity, 84–85, 84n, 88
dump valves, 69–70, 71
Le Bourget approach, 220
nose tank, 20, 21, 67, 84, 84n, 154, 163, 197, 198–200
Orteig Prize rules, 24
reserve tanks, 70–71
Furnas, Charles, 254n
Fuselage
defined, 276
“doping,” 59, 59n
Galleani, Luigi, 116
Galley Head lighthouse, 196n
Gasoline, 14–15, 84. See also Fuel tanks
Geneva Convention, 266
George V of England, 55, 246
German immigrants, 109
German language, 106
Germany, and World War I, 48, 102–3, 227–28
Gimbel Brothers, 113
Glossary of terms, 275–78
Glynn, H. G., 7
Goff, USS, 249
Goldsborough, Brice, 25, 64, 131
Gonesse, 1, 217, 217n
Gosport, 247
Grand Banks, 89–90
Grand Canyon, 85
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, 110
Great Britain
Lindbergh post-flight visit, 246–47
Lindbergh’s flight, 187–206
World War I and, 48, 102–3, 102n, 228
Great circle, 27, 94, 150, 276
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 20, 210–11n
Green, Fitzhugh, 256n
Greenland, 167
Griffith, D. W., 51, 51n
Gross weight, 15, 28n, 75, 199n, 222
“Ground effect,” 177–78
Ground speed, 173, 173n
Grove Lake Academy, 37
Guggenheim, Harry, 20, 255–56, 257
Gulf of Maine, 61, 65, 77, 126
Gulf of St. Lawrence, 86
Gulf Stream, 86–87, 151
H-50, HMS, 4, 4n
Hall, Don, 68–69, 72, 73, 76, 81, 83–84, 213
“Hands-off” flying, 83
Hardin, Charles, 178
Hardwick, Thomas R., 112–13
Hartland Point lighthouse, 4
Harvey Beach, 29
Hatmaker, Consuelo “Connie,” 2
Hawley, Alan Ramsay, 23
Hays, Arthur Garfield, 118
Hazelhurst, Leighton Wilson, 128n
Hazelhurst Field, 128–29, 128n
“Heading” vs. “course,” 25–27
Headwin
d, 173
Hearst, William Randolph, 256
Hempstead Plains Aerodrome, 128, 128n
Hero, The (Davis), 28n
Herrick, Myron, 209, 228–35, 239, 240–41, 243
Herrick, Parmely, 231, 234
Hicks, Sue Kerr, 117–20
Highfields, 259, 260
Hirsch, Max, 109
Holland Tunnel, 104n
Hoover, Herbert, 263–64
Hopson, Bill, 180
Hornet, USS, 53n
Houghton, Alanson B., 247
Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel, 104–5
Hull, Ronald W., 55
Humphreys, USS, 249
Hunting knife, 88
Ice, 86–87, 89, 143–44
Icebergs, 135, 208
Île Illiec, 211n, 261
Immigration, 108–9, 111–12
Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, 112
Inclinometer, 19, 138, 276
Induction compass. See Earth inductor compass
Industrial Adjustment Company (IAA), 42–43
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 114–15
International Meridian Conference (1884), 210n
International Union for the Conservation of Nature, 269
Ireland
Lindbergh flight, 187–97
Nungesser and Coli flight, 6–7
Valentia Island, 189–90, 189n, 190n, 193–94
Irish immigrants, 109, 111
Islamoff, Jacob, 16n
Jazz music, 110–11
Jazz Singer, The (movie), 110
Jeffries, John, 207
Jolson, Al, 110
Jones, Charles “Casey,” 130
Jones, Christopher, 32n
Julius Caesar, 206
Kelly Air Mail Act of 1925, 181
Kelly Field, 182
Kenmare Bay, 189, 194
Kenney, George C., 267
Keystone K-47 Pathfinder, 15, 133
Kill Devil Hills, 41
Kimball, James “Doc,” 31, 146, 162
Kingston Bay, 31
Knight, Harry H., 24
Knightstown, 190n
Knocknagaroon Hill, 7
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM), 254
Krauss-Morel compass, 3
Ku Klux Klan, 51, 105, 111–12
Labor unions, 114–15
Labrador Current, 86–87, 151
Lakehurst Naval Air Station, 121
Lambert Field, 85
Land, Charles, 39, 39n, 42–43
Landfall, defined, 277
Landing gear, 1–2, 87, 266
Landmark navigation, 26, 31, 64, 65, 214
Landry, Jules, 171
Lane, Ken, 13–14
Langley, USS, 53n
Lansdowne, Zachary, 55n, 121–22
La Presse, 19
La Touraine, 210n
Law of Rights, Realized and Unrealized, Individual and Public, 42
Lawrance, Charles, 136, 136n
Lawrance Aero Engine Corporation, 136n
Leaning out air, 29–30
Le Bourget Field, 1, 209, 216–25, 216n
first moments after landing, 226–32
Spirit’s approach and landing, 219–25
Le Havre, 209–10
Le Journal, 19
Lenin, Vladimir, 112
Le Prieur navigraph, 3