Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-13 | Page 20 | Will Luck Take Him Across the Atlantic?

l iLL J LUCK TAKE T HIM 1 1 j I ACROSS THE ATLANTIC I i tr iJ Va w cs i ST S1 LOUIS Mo March Four 12 times death has sung In the ears of PIlot Charles A. A Lindbergh Now the luckiest pilot In America Is Is' Isto Isto to put his inis luck to Its greatest test conque t t of of the Atlantic ocean alone To date Lucky Lindbergh In his brushes with death has come oft winner but Net that's this story Early In the I summer ummer Lindbergh will dash from Roosevelt field Long Island N. N Y fun fOl ParIs itt a land lanel monoplane without pontoons or radio radio ra- ra dio sending apparatus and with a single motor to pull the bIrd through the aIr airl St I Louis ouis will send hIm on his way The Tho monoplane which will he be chrIstened when completed The SpIrit ot of St. St Louis s Js now beIng constructed at San Diego Cal CaI Lindbergh Lind- Lind bergh berAh Is watching every detail ot of building GOOD OLD PARACHUTE I At Kelly field Texas Lindbergh while flying at feet teet hit another another an- an other plane Two miles above the earth both 1 pilots jumped ParachutEs ParachutE's Parachutes Para Para- chutEs chutE's saved them Six months later near St St. Louts LoutH Lindbergh's ship went Into a spIn He jumped and the parachute saved him Twice while carrying mall maU between St. St LouIs and Chicago his gasoline gasoline gaso- gaso line su supply ply lIne failed ane lIe He jumped i lS l'S A r p w r 15 C Pilot Ch Charles A. A Lindbergh and the type of pigmy plane in which he will to fly from New NewYork NewYork York to Paris The parachute saved hIs life Ure One jump was at nI night nt Lindbergh's plane will measure e I two forty feet teet between wIng Ups tips a pIgmy compared with Byrds Byrd's mam- mam t I moth In which he sailed over the north pole It will carry gallons of gasoline and 35 gallons of oil with a a cruisIng speed of miles an hour hou Lindbergh leeks ecks a prIze of This Is offered by Raymond of New York to the fIrst aviator leavIng a point within fifty miles ot of New York and landIng In France stoning n The Tho flier mer does not look the daring part he will wIlI play lie He Is l basht and spoken soft but other fliers saylie say ne lie possesses a a. steel nerve and cool head lie He will leave lave steamer lanes and follow the shortest route between Long Island and Paris de depending upon pon a lone horsepower motor to carry hIm along safely Tentatively Tentatively Tenta- Tenta the flight is set for tor July 4 but the avIator hopes to leave Roosevelt field before that date data data- Cop Copyrighted by NE