Volume 18 , Issue 7

Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie Dawg

Woof! Woof! Did you know on this day, 15 February 1929, Lindy winged his way north from Miami, Florida, expecting to reach New York by nightfall if weather conditions permitted. This is the headlines we found in The Evening Standard (Uniontown, Pennsylvania), dated 15 February 1929, Friday, front page headlines read: "Lindy Off For N. Y. At Dawn."

Found on Newspapers.com

Miami, Feb. 15 (129) -- Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh winged his way north on this day expecting to reach New York by nightfall if weather conditions permit. Lindbergh left the Pan American airport in a Curtiss Falcon plane shortly before 8 a.m. Before stepping into the cockpit he said he might stop enroute at Sapelo Island, winter estate of Howard E Coffin, millionaire automobile manufacturer.

Pan American airways of which Lindbergh should reach New York in 11 hours. A blue sky and bright sun greeted the monoplane as it took the air. Lindbergh was clocked out at 7:37 a.m.

Woof! Woof! I have a dream! We need a "Future To Believe In .... And a Congress we can believe in, One that won't obstruct obstruct obstruct!"
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