LINDBERGH, Charles. Printed map of Pacific Ocean signed ("C.A.L.") and INSCRIBED: "CHART FOR ALTERNATE FLIGHT ACROSS PACIFIC. SAN DIEGO - 1927." Washington, D.C., United States Navy Hydrographic Office, October 1925. 41¾ x 32¾ in., with Navy Department stamp 19 February 1927 . THE FLIGHT NOT TAKEN: LINDBERGH'S ALTERNATE PLANS FOR A FLIGHT ACROSS THE PACIFIC While meeting with his backers in San Diego in February 1927, Lindbergh also talked with some Naval officers stationed there, in search of maps and charts for his Atlantic crossing. Not surprisingly they also had an abundance of Pacific Ocean charts. With progress slow on completing The Spirit of St. Louis , and several other teams making ready to claim the Orteig prize money, Lindbergh thought his competitors would make it to Paris before he could get off the ground. The idea of an even more spectacular, fall-back project gathered momentum in his mind. "We are not taking off before everything is ready," he wrote his mother Evangeline, "and if someone makes the N.Y. - Paris hop we will probably try a trans-Pacific flight via Honolulu to Australia which would be a still greater accomplishment" (Berg, Lindbergh , 104). But his competitors flopped and he was the one who made the historic "hop."
LINDBERGH, Charles. Printed map of Pacific Ocean signed ("C.A.L.") and INSCRIBED: "CHART FOR ALTERNATE FLIGHT ACROSS PACIFIC. SAN DIEGO - 1927." Washington, D.C., United States Navy Hydrographic Office, October 1925. 41¾ x 32¾ in., with Navy Department stamp 19 February 1927 . THE FLIGHT NOT TAKEN: LINDBERGH'S ALTERNATE PLANS FOR A FLIGHT ACROSS THE PACIFIC While meeting with his backers in San Diego in February 1927, Lindbergh also talked with some Naval officers stationed there, in search of maps and charts for his Atlantic crossing. Not surprisingly they also had an abundance of Pacific Ocean charts. With progress slow on completing The Spirit of St. Louis , and several other teams making ready to claim the Orteig prize money, Lindbergh thought his competitors would make it to Paris before he could get off the ground. The idea of an even more spectacular, fall-back project gathered momentum in his mind. "We are not taking off before everything is ready," he wrote his mother Evangeline, "and if someone makes the N.Y. - Paris hop we will probably try a trans-Pacific flight via Honolulu to Australia which would be a still greater accomplishment" (Berg, Lindbergh , 104). But his competitors flopped and he was the one who made the historic "hop."
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