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MR. HARRY H. KNIGHT MAJOR WILLIAM B. ROBERTSON MAJOR ALBERT BOND LAMBERT MR. J. D. WOOSTER LAMBERT MR. HAROLD M. BIXBY MR. EARL C. THOMPSON MR. HARRY F. KNIGHT MR. E. LANSING RAY

Chapters

1. Part 1

MR. HARRY H. KNIGHT MAJOR WILLIAM B. ROBERTSON MAJOR ALBERT BOND LAMBERT MR. J. D. WOOSTER LAMBERT MR. HAROLD M. BIXBY MR. EARL C. THOMPSON MR. HARRY F. KNIGHT MR. E. LANSING RAY

2. Part 2

I remained in Lincoln for two weeks working in the Lincoln Standard factory for fifteen dollars a week. Then I received a wire from H. J. Lynch, who had purchased a Standard a f...

3. Part 3

After reaching the corner of the field I instructed him, as I had the previous passengers, to hold the throttle back while I was lifting the tail around. When I climbed back in...

4. Part 4

When I went to St. Louis it was with the expectation of pressing on still farther south when the races were over, but with Bud’s assistance I sold my Jenny to his friend, flying...

5. Part 5

As the first of April approached we were looking forward to the start of actual flying with great anticipation. Coupled with this was the anxiety of waiting for the returns from...

6. Part 6

One day during the beginning of our term at Kelly, someone decided that the cadets should stand reveille. How it came about or who caused the decision was never known by the det...

7. Part 7

On arriving at the field a few miles east of Denver, I discovered the plane I was to fly to be the same Lincoln Standard that Lynch and I had flown to Montana three years before...

8. Part 8

“After flying west for fifteen minutes and seeing no break I turned southwest hoping to strike the edge of the fog south of the Illinois River. My engine stopped at 8:20 P.M., a...

9. Part 9

Near the end of April the factory work was completed and early one morning, the 46 ft. wing was taken out of the second floor of the factory onto the top of a freight car and th...

10. Part 10

I have asked Fitzhugh Green to write a brief account of my various receptions not only because I think he has caught the spirit of what I have tried to do for aviation, but beca...

11. Part 11

At a luncheon given by the Air Council, Lindbergh was presented with the _Daily Mail’s_ gold aviation cup, which was instituted many years ago by the late Lord Northcliffe. Here...

12. Part 12

“We of the press rub elbows with all manner of mankind. We see much of good but we see much of self-seeking, of sordid motive, as we sit in the wings watching the world’s proces...

13. Part 13

“So I left Europe and the British Isles with the regret that I had been unable to see either Europe or the British Isles. When I started up the Potomac from the _Memphis_ I deci...