25 Years Ago Today.
25 Years Ago Today.
25 Years Ago Today. When aviators were heroes and flying was an adventure, without the aid of electronic brains. Among the great names of the day: Charles A. Lindbergh who, with Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, earned the new fame pioneering commercial airways in an odyssey that took him across the Atlantic Ocean twice, flying over 4 continents. Anne in aviator (?) hat with bouquet of flowers. Various shots of the Lindberghs. General Italo Balbo lets his armada of 24 Italian seaplanes 6100 miles to the Chicago World's Fair, in one of the greatest of all mass flights. Also, crowds and ticker tape parade in New York. Other highlights: a steam-engined plane with a reversible propeller, an experimental helicopter setting a new record for height - 30 feet; and the 110 miles to the gallon motor scooter invented by a flier for commuting to and from the airport. Little scooter at filling station.