This historical marker is in Godfrey in Madison County Illinois Charles A. Louis, Missouri, for mail delivery., This small frame station, equipped with a telephone connection, was erected on the field to store supplies (oil, fuel, and parts) for mail planes, to offer a cot for overnight, and to provide a place to keep the mail. Mail pilots used the landing strip when weather, visibility or mechanical problems did not permit a safe flight into Lambert Field in St. Waters, owner of the Benjamin (Godfrey) home at 6808 Godfrey Rd., The landing strip was illuminated by flood lights placed 200 feet apart and marked by a 1250 candle power beacon atop a 60-foot steel tower. In August 1926, the United States Government leased the level tract of land from William L. Lindbergh, Air Mail Pilot, personally selected the 40-acre site on Airport Road for use as an emergency landing field during the Chicago-St. He visited 82 cities in all 48 states during which the nation's nascent aviation superhero delivered 147 speeches and rode 1,290 miles in parades.Lindbergh Relay Station. No other author before or since ever had such an extensive, highly publicized tour that helped promote a book than did Lindbergh's "We" of himself and the Spirit during their 22,350-mile tour of the US. The nation became obsessed with Lindbergh during the tour in which he was seen in person by more than 30 million Americans, a quarter of the nation's then population. The book's great commercial success was considerably aided by its publication coinciding with the start of his three-month tour of the United States in the Spirit on behalf of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. The book, which was also soon translated into most major languages, remained at the top of best-seller lists well into 1928, with more than 650,000 copies sold in the first year, and earned Lindbergh more than $250,000. He offered the prize to be awarded to the pilot of the first successful nonstop flight made in either direction between New York City and Paris. The main impetus for the flight was the $25,000 Orteig Prize offered by the French-born New York hotelier Raymond Orteig. This historic flight by Charles Lindbergh took him from being a little known US Postal Service Air Mail pilot and made him into one of the most famous if not the most famous person in the world. Lindbergh, written almost immediately after his famous flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris on May 20–21, 1927. We is the autobiography of the famous flier, Charles A. One of the finest most preserved example possible. Fine in the original glassine and in the original blue box with matching number. Octavo, half bound salmon paper covered boards, frontispiece with tissue-guard, 51 black and white plates, with the publisher’s note laid in. One of 1000 numbered copies, this is number 97, signed by both Charles Lindbergh and the publisher on the limitation page. Signed limited edition of Lindbergh’s autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century’s greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flight.
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