From Flying Magazine's eNewsletter:
Lindbergh Video Details Aviation's Landmark Takeoff
For fans of Charles Lindbergh's New York-Paris flight, a new website includes unique video footage of the takeoff, synched with real-time audio recorded by newsreel cameramen.
Airport & Aviation Appraisals president Win Perkins is a long-time Lindbergh fan, and has painstakingly assembled the video in his spare time to post on his website at airportappraisals.com.
I have only watched part one of four, it begins with the loss of the Midnight Ghosts and other Orteig Prize contenders,
up to the night before take off.
You will have to load
http://www.airportappraisals.com/contact/ again to access the next part and I watched part two
through the towing of the Spirit of Saint Louis to the departure end of the runway.
I realize that it might have been due to the tailskid, but a great idea to begin an overloaded, record setting takeoff.
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When I was in High School (1960) I got to know and spend a lot of time with
Clarence Chamberlin(got second place for the Orteig Prize through no fault of his own).
He showed me a NewsReel of his landing the Packard Diesel powered Airplane on the George Washington Bridge
(while under construction) and he drove a late thirties Hudson (Terraplane?).