The Charles Lindbergh's Flight Cap Of The Atlantic Crossing
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Charles Lindbergh used our flight cap during the famous crossing. It was handed over on the evening of May 21, 1927 to the United States Ambassador. On May 27 following his arrival, Charles Lindbergh flew over the Parisian capital with test pilot Michel Détroyat, simulating an air combat on the way back to Le Bourget. During an acrobatic maneuver, Lindbergh who had on his precious "talisman", lost it.
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On the morning of the 28th of May, 1927, the great-aunt of our vendor, discovered the cap in her vegetable garden at Le Bourget, made the comparison with what she had witnessed the day before, and then preserved it very carefully.
In 1969, the show Les Dossiers de l'Ecran dedicated the evening to Charles Lindbergh, and this cap, a rare testimony of the crossing, was one of the stars of the program, which retraced the history of its astonishing story.
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Cf. the typewritten letter of the French Broadcasting-Television Office, dated July 30, 1969 following the loan of the bonnet for the program "les Dossiers de l'Ecran" of July 9, 1969. (doc.2).
Passed down through generations to the current owner, Charles Lindbergh's flight cap from the first Atlantic crossing, non-stop and alone, remains today the emblematic and unique testimony of the that famous crossing.
