Monday, May 21, 2007



Eighty years ago a man set out in a single seat plane across the Atlantic Ocean. The flight took Charles Lindbergh 33 hours, 30 minutes and 29.8 seconds. Today on Delta it takes 7hrs 10min. His plane the Spirit of St Louis was a small single engine plane, weighing only 2,150 lbs empty. I had a 223 hp engine and 450 gallons of gas, giving a range of 4100 miles. It was a single seat plane that cruised at around 100 miles pr hour. The plane had no radio and carried only a sextent, stopwatch and a compass. Oh and the plane... had no windshield, in fact no view out of the front at all. Gas tanks were there. So Lindy had to look out the side.

A movie was made back in 1957 staring Jimmy Stewart. It was a great classic picture and very authentic. If you can find it it would be worth a look.

4 comments:

Jane said...

Charles... I can't wait for you guys to meet Nikita. If I thought that Perry would allow it, I would introduce him to the entire church!

Do you think we could give him a tour of the camera? Or maybe your plane?

I am so amazed at how God chose Nikita to be in our home... if Jack and I had our own biological children, they would be JUST like Nikita.. he is the perfect blend of both of us.

Thanks for asking about our "son":)

Charles said...

Absolutely, I would love to show him both the camera, and since there is so much more to see ...the plane.

Jane said...

Nikita is 10...and very polite, smart as a tack, mechanically minded, so into our computers, loves movies, LOVES to swim and eat his American mamma's hamburgers! Invite yourself over for a grill session!
He knows some English, but understands TONS, so we don't say anything in front of him that we don't want taken back to Belarus.

Rita Loca said...

amazing!!! Imagine doing that with that plane!!