LINDBERGH THE TEST PILOT
Oct 29, 2019
3 minutes
BY DENNIS K. JOHNSON
“What a beautiful machine it is, resting on the field in front of the hangar, trim and slender, gleaming in its silver coat! All our ideas, all our calculations, all our hopes lie there before me, waiting to undergo the acid test of flight. For me, it seems to contain the whole future of aviation.” That’s how Charles Lindbergh described the Ryan NYP as it waited to make its first flight on April 28, 1927, from
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