European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dail Magazine i am Charles Lindbergh the Lone Eagle has landed by Samuel g. Blackman for the associated press before the main heavyweight bout at Yankee stadium. Joe Humphries the announcer asked the crowd of 40.000 to Rise. Pointing to the sky he asked everyone to say a prayer for a boy up there tonight who is carrying the Hopes of All True blooded  a hush fell Over the stadium. At an Iron and steel Institute banquet in new York City the toastmaster joined to the american Flag and said i am proud to live under that hag. I am thinking Ofa Young american boy who left this morning for Paris Charles a. Lindbergh i love the sky s unbroken  before Takeoff at Roosevelt Field . With a Sandwich in his pocket. May god deliver him  will Rogers wrote in his daily newspaper column no attempt at Jukes today. A slim tall bashful smiling american boy is Over the Middle of the Atlantic Ocean where no Lone human being has Ever ventured before a drawing in the St. Lams Post dispatch by Daniel r. Fitzpatrick which was to win a pulitzer prize showed a tiny plane Over a wide sea darkened by a threatening storm. Indeed there was a Little plane. A single engine Ryan monoplane called the spirit of St.  inside alone with his thoughts two canteens of water and five sandwiches was Charles a. Lind Bergh. Age 23. Occupation air mail Pilot. He had taken off from Roosevelt Field . In the Early morning Mist of May 20. 1927. Clearing a tractor by 10 feet and Telephone wires by 20 feet. He landed at  Bourget Airport in Paris some 3.600 Miles and it 2 hours later the first person to Fly the Atlantic nonstop. But As he flew Over Kurland Only a few hours Short of his goal he looked far beyond the pans Landing what limitless possibilities aviation holds when planes can Fly nonstop Between new York and Paris the year will surely come when passengers and mail will Fly Ever Dikiy trom airmen to Kur Ojie. Possibly every one will travel by air in another 50 i Ais " fifty years that s now. We have gone far beyond Lindbergh s Early expectations not Only in conquer ing the seas but space As Well. John Glenn the first american to orbit the Karth. Said Lindbergh s flight triggered aviation to what followed intercontinental travel and the space program you need a catalyst to Start anything that s Bluit Lind Bergh s flight  twelve hours passed from Takeoff before Lindbergh in his words climbed Over the fog Over the sea and into the night. By contrast Glenn in his Mercury Friendship 7 was on the dark Side of the Earth 45 minutes after an Early morning liftoff Fiona Cape canaveral. Fla. 35 years  Collins commander of Apollo 11 which took Neil Armstrong and Cwm alarm to the Moon on july 20. 1969. Said Lindbergh s flight not Only accelerated inter est in aviation around the world but was certainly a piece in the Jigsaw Puzzle which led to the space pro , now director of the smithsonian institution s Friday May 20, 1977 National air and space museum was asked if Apollo ii on display at the museum is As Papular with visitors As the spirit of St.  is difficult to  he replied. But when people see the spirit of St. Louis they Sec Lindbergh flying that plane. Apollo 11 looks like a Lump on the floor they see Lindbergh lying idol  Lindbergh became interested in flying when he was 20 years old. Bom in Detroit on feb 4.1902. He grew up in Little Falls Minn. He worked on the family farm during world War 1 then entered the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1920 to study mechanical engineering. He left after a year and a half and went to Lincoln. Neb., to take flying lessons. He barnstormer in the Midwest and in March 1924 attended the army flying school at san Anto Nio. Texas graduated top Man in his class he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the air service Reserve in 1925. Transatlantic flight activity had been heating up in the l nil cd states. Itri Tain and France just As the space race Between the lulled states and the soviet Union would later. It was fuelled in part by a $25,000 offer by Raymond orteig for anyone who could Fly nonstop Between new York and pan pilots such As capt Charles Nungesser. A world War i Ace. And it. Francois coh. A one eyed airman capt Rene Fonck cmdr. Richard e. Byrd the Polar flier Clarence d Chamberla and Bert Acosta it. Cmdr. Noel Davis and it Stanton h. Wooster were among those who declared their intentions to make the run six were to die trying two Only 10 Days before Lindbergh left san Diego for St Louis and new York. On that Day. Word came that Nungesser and Coli had taken off from la Bourget. The plane  sighted Over Ireland. Newfoundland and Portland Maine. All reports were groundless. When it was obvious that the two had exhausted their fuel they we a Given up for lost they see Lindbergh flying that  he is in a curtain of Mist As he Heads Over Long Island after Takeoff at 7 54 am. On May 20 after a night without sleep his Altitude is 200 feet and his air Speed is 105m pm. The Haze thickens and the coast line is no longer Visi ble. The Haze clears Over the thames River Between nor continued on Page 14 the stars and stripes Page 13