On this date in history, Charles Lindbergh departs for Paris in the Spirit of Louis.
Missouri aviation history
At around 9:20 PM, the peace in the Missouri/Iowa border town of Unionville, Missouri was shattered by a loud, explosive boom. It wasn’t thunder.
Charles Lindbergh was turned down by his boss, William B. Robertson, for help in financing his solo Trans-Atlantic flight. He already had $1,000 from Albert Bond Lambert. The Post-Dispatch also turned Lindy down, but business leaders Harry Hall Knight and Harold Bixby would say yes.
Birth of Albert Bond Lambert, the eighth balloon pilot in America and the person who bought, cleared, and leveled a flying field that is now an international airport at St. Louis.
This date in Missouri history: Airmail pilot Charles “Lucky Lindy” Lindbergh survived his fourth parachute jump. His plane ran out of fuel over Bloomington, Illinois.
