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Re: Spirit of St. Louis MOC
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lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.town
Date: 
Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:29:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Michael Nelson writes:
Here it is, my rendition of Lucky Lindy's famous airplane that carried him
on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927.  Click on the link below
to go straight to the pictures then read below if you want the info on the
model.

Nice, it looks authentic.

The extra fuel tanks in the front coverd up the windshield so Lindbergh only >had the side windows to look out of and see the landscape and he used the top
window to set his course by using the stars.

I think I've read somewhere that he also had a primitive kind of periscope
to see what was ahead of him.

With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.



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  Spirit of St. Louis MOC
 
Here it is, my rendition of Lucky Lindy's famous airplane that carried him on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927. Click on the link below to go straight to the pictures then read below if you want the info on the model. Here is the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)  

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