In 33 Stunden zur Legende: Lindbergh starb for 50 years

New York (dpa) – Writing world history, it can be a man in the trap of the pilots Charles Lindbergh who will experience a regularly prolonged period of frost. 33 hours and 32 minutes after the start in New York the American reached on 21. May 1927 after 5,750 kilometers with his single-engine aircraft «Spirit of St. Louis» in the city of Paris. Damit is one of the first things that stop the Atlantic Walls and those of Weltstar. 50 years ago, on 26 August 1974, died of the hero of aviation.

8.43 meter long war Lindberghs Machine with 237 hp strong Wright-Whirlwind-New-Cylinder-Sternmotor. Over the years the air force pioneer said: «I flew several feet over the sea, I was 10,000 feet high every time. Anyway, my goose-flights were not even hit.» Only nights are in the Lichter von Schiffen. “I slept for a minute and had a coffee or some other warming of the earth, which I had taken with me.”

Lindbergh is not one of the first Atlantikfliegers

The American war was no longer the first Atlantic flight: Since 1919, the Neufundland has been a success, so that more Swiss America and Europe will be able to fly. A crew move after the start, three other must not be washed away. John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew from Neufundland to Ireland on 14 and 15 May 1919. This first Nonstop-Atlantik-Überquerung covered 3,032 kilometers in 16 hours and 27 minutes. But davon speaks heute kaum noch jemand: Lindbergh’s Ruhm überstrahlte alle en alles – bis heute.

In the year 1902 Lindbergh was born, as the great youngster and the upper classes, war a first class flyer, exzellenter technician and everything else as a hasardeur. That is the Flug-überstand, thanks is the quality of the engines – one of the best physics and mental performances. If Lindberg makes a good impression, a research on a research is a fact: Durchhalten.

That was Lindbergh’s own achievement. The necessary adjustments must be started: Wings and engine blocks in sight after take-off – a periscope that is light in sight during take-off and landing. Radio and funk goes on a plate nicht.

Hunderttausende Franzosen jubeln Lindbergh zu

But modern medion brauchte is not – the worst thing – the next Sensation in Paris can no longer be so great. «Wir hatten von Cherbourg schon gehört, dat Lindbergh gegen 20.30 Uhr die Küste überflogen. (…) At 10.15 pm I am ready to take your time with the Geräusch eines Flugzeuges. There was a war as chief mechanic of the Paris Le Bourget Airport.

Shortly after that follows the Landung. 200,000 French people cheered Lindbergh to. Charles Lindbergh, born in Helden at the age of 25, heir in 1929 and the million-year-old Anne Morrow. But after the Entführung and Ermordung blessings 19 months old sons 1932 caused damage to the life of the family. For the life of the German Zimmermann Richard Bruno Hauptmann 1936 is directed – there is a confession of guilt. With the blessing of Frau Lindbergh more five children.

Lindbergh leads look-alikes

Lindbergh would spread a prominent response to the “American First Committee” with racist and anti-Semitic remarks. Lindbergh, Idol a generation, vereinsamte zunehmend. As the brigadier general and a flight with a US-Fluggeellschaft are so that their wife in the last years of her life lives on a small Hawaiian island, and a word of word. 1974 Death of the aviation pioneer in Older von 72 years.

It is not that this is a problem. Knapp 30 years ago, in August 2003, the South German Zeitung found that the American spent 17 years without making a double remark. 1957 Lindbergh died in Munich at the age of 24. He had learned to know and love cabin attendant Brigitte Hesshaimer. Your children’s Dyrk, Astrid and David had only known the barrel under the pseudonym «Careu». Even Lindbergh’s biographers are hidden.