Originally Posted by t walgamuth

i am reading limbergh, a biography now.

charles limbergh was an incredibly skilled and thoughtful pilot at a time when a lot of them died in their planes. his flying of the atlantic earned him such huge popularity that his life was forever changed.

he was even bigger then elvis....worldwide too. across all social classes. kings and prime miinsters wanted their pictures taken with him.

i am at the part where right before ww2 he was wined and dined by the germans and convinced that they held total air supremecy and therefore could not be beaten. he is now going around scaring the pants off the english and french leaders. it appears he may have single handedly assisted the germans hugely in their drive to achieve appeasement.....at the time their air force was actually pretty infantile and not that well developed.

more to come.

tom w

Originally Posted by John Doe

I haven't read a book of his since meeting him several times. He must have a ghost writer. Although I have a case of signed first editions of A Time to Kill that he gave away to a friend before it took off that may be worth something one day.
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Originally Posted by Dee8go

Tom, I think that I read the same Lindberg bio that you're reading a couple of years ago. It was good, and he was quite an impressive figure, a real superstar as you noted. His image got pretty tarnished when he advocated against getting ito the war, though. Many called him a Nazi sympathizer. I think he was just so awed by the state of their aeronautical engineering that that transcended his political thinking.

I happen to know someone whose father flew with Lindberg on occassion. I love to read about people who have achieved great things in life. I encourage my kids to do that, too. Wish I'd started earlier.