Lindbergh Again

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 1

Lindbergh Again

WILL FLY ATLANTIC SHOULD WINGS BE CLIPPED? By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Received 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Friday. Colonel Lindbergh has advised his Army friends that he intends to fly the Atlantic, again this summer. He plans to visit most of the European countries, after which he hopes to continue across Russia to China and Japan, returning over the Pacific. The flight is expected to start from New York, with the first stop somewhere in Germany. Questioned at St. Louis, Lindbergh refused to divulge his plans until they are perfected.—A. and N.Z. “Should Lindbergh’s wings be clipped?” Is a question being keenly debated in the United States. Says one paper: “We cannot afford to risk his life further. We need Colonel Lindbergh. Such a man must not be allowed uselessly to risk his life. Let us keep him on the ground for a while.” That was after Lindbergh’s flight over the Latin-American States, across wildernesses and shark-infested seas, for 9.060 miles. The airman, who has flown 40,000 miles in a single year, made reply: “I do not consider that the flying I have been doing is unduly hazardous. There are still many things to be done in the field of experimental flying, and some one must do them. Any man who engages in such activities must take the risks that go with it. “At the outset, when new methods of transportation are coming into use, there must be pioneers to show the way, and some of them are killed. But the ones who do the pioneering are the last ones to think of the hazards.”