lindberg was the first to fly nonstop between new york and took 33 hours in the spirit of st. louis, his plane. this was recorded at the tattered cover bookstore in littleton, colorado in 2017. it is 50 minutes. hi, everyone, thank you for coming to tonight's event. thank you for coming to support your local independent bookstore. , asght we have dan hampton most of you know, he is the author of hunter killers and lords of the sky, among others. he is a decorated fighter pilot -- ok, atorian of noted historian. tonight, he will discuss the flight, his recounting of trials lindberg's famous transplanted flight over from new york to paris. ado, i further a do -- will turn it over to dan. let's give him a big plus. -- a big applause. >> [applause] dan: i also tap dance and sing badly. >> [laughter] dan: thank you jennifer and michael and the tattered cover crowd as well as my c-span buddies. mark and steve who have done this with me several times before. and are probably tired of looking at me. and it is good to be back in colorado. in nice, sunny, warm may. >> [laughter] dan: wh

lindberg said, i am going to go small, streamlined, and i'm going to do it myself. i don't need a navigator because i can navigate and i don't need a second pilot because i would just rely on him and i don't want to do that, and i can use the weight save for fuel. being a single seat, single-engine guy myself, i can appreciate that too. so that's what they designed the spirit around. they had a basic design they used before, but they modified it. they made it a little bit longer and the wingspan was increased a little bit to carry as much fuel as they could. it was rated for 425 gallons, which to me seems like an appalling number to cross 3600 miles, but he had worked it out, he knew the consumption per hour, knew they could do it. they half fueled it on curtis field curtisfield and towed it over to roosevelt and fueled it the rest of the way with another 25 gallons, so it could carry 450 gallons. i'm asked a lot about that. people are surprised and i go back to the car analogy. when empty light comes on, we can always go a little farther. i think gas tanks are alwa

war and lindberg shockingly said this. i prefer to see neither side win. between britain and the nazi germany, there is not as much difference in philosophy as we have been led to believe. and believe it or not, he insisted that the real danger to the u.s. play here at home and that roosevelt posed a greater threat to the united states dan did hitler. for his part, fdr said to henry morgenthau, if i should die tomorrow, i want you to know that i am absolutely convinced that lindbergh is a nazi. by the way, lindbergh's wife in mario lindberg also pitched in. and the fall of 1940, she wrote the best-selling book called the wave of the future. for mrs. lindbergh, the wave of the future with fascism. she wrote that fascism and dictatorship, well they are just infinitely more dynamic, modern and energetic than americans 18th century democracy with its slow-moving checks and balances and frequent elections. and she argued that the conflict taking place in europe wasn't between good and evil. it was between the forces of the past

we early september 1927 lindberg successfully flew the atlantic not just for the pioneering spirit of itit all but for a jackpot the first man to fly successfully to get a a jackpot of $25,000 and when he made thee flight but then put on a goodwill to her of america where he was paid an additional $50,000 to visit townsend ride in the parade a young woman inwn ilkeland floridad decide she ww fly across the ocean for free her name is ruth so to land wite the subtlety of gail the brownt hair bobbed in the latest style almost never appearing with aeai scarfng appea around her head te engine was a brilliant shade ofn orange less to do with flair and practicality and it was easier to find an orange plane than a silver one but the floridian had no intention to put her played pe the water. and too all the way down to the name painted on therfn to t fuselagen girl. runway ready already commanding always commanding their their attention with thestinc tivedistinctive high pitched voe give a weather break will take off then what is your hurry? i've been planning this ever since i started flying

lindberg was the first to fly nonstop between new york and took 33 hours in the spirit of st. louis, his plane. this was recorded at the tattered cover bookstore in littleton, colorado in 2017. it is 50 minutes. hi, everyone, thank you for coming to tonight's event. thank you for coming to support your local independent bookstore. tonight we have dan hampton

lindberg was the first to fly nonstop between new york and paris, which took 33 hours in the spirit of st. louis, his plane. this was recorded at the tattered cover bookstore in littleton, colorado in 2017. it is 50 minutes. >> hi, everyone, thank you for coming to tonight's event.