Charles Lindbergh Takes Off
“Roosevelt Field, Long Island, May 20, 1927, predawn. The Spirit of St. Louis lumbers down a muddy runway. Foreground shows Lindbergh in goggles cracking the throttle wide and a crowd holding back at the rope line; midground reveals the rear fuselage clearing telephone wires by inches; a misty Long Island farm horizon glows pink with the first light of a transatlantic dawn.”
