June 11 1927 Charles Lindbergh Homecoming INVITATION!!!

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I AM LISTING SEVERAL ITEMS FROM AN OLD COLLECTION INCLUDING OTHER SELECT EARLY PAPER, PHOTOS, & ANTIQUES SO IF THESE INTEREST YOU CHECK MY OTHER AUCTIONS!!!------- Original June 11, 1927 engraved homecoming reception celebration invitation card for Charles Lindbergh� on June 11, 1927, a fleet of warships and multiple flights of military aircraft including pursuit planes, bombers and the rigid airship� USS� Los Angeles� (ZR-3), escorted him up the� Potomac River� to� Washington, D.C.� where President� Calvin Coolidge� awarded him the� Distinguished Flying Cross at an event sponsered by the National Press Club. Found together in an estate with 2-8"X10" photos of the event itself. #1: First photo of Lindy having just� received� the Distinguished Flying Cross from Pres. Coolidge who is standing a few feet to Lindy's left looking down, his head is partially obscured by the bank of microphones. Lindy is clearly wearing the Distinguished Flying Cross he just recieved from Coolidge, it is on his coat when looked at with a glass, and he is shaking hands with a dignitary having turned his back to the President. #2. Second Photo� is of Lindy giving a speech into the microphones (also was the very first time that music had been broadcast coast to coast according to a google search) on a� dais with the presidential seal. Coolidge's face is obscured by a microphone and medal cannot be seen on Lindy for the same reason. #3. Invitation card, 3-3/4" X 5", inviting from the National Press Club to their reception at the auditorium of the National Chamber of Commerce, Washington D.C. Card could be exchanged for 2 tickets. It has photo of 2 gents scotched taped to it, probably photo of the men who went? See Pics. � I WILL BE LISTING OTHER INTERESTING ANTIQUES THIS WEEK SO PLEASE CHECK MY OTHER AUCTIONS!!! Designated to be awarded to the pilot of the first successful nonstop flight made in either direction between� New York City� and� Paris� within five years after its establishment, the $25,000� Orteig Prizewas first offered by the French-born New York hotelier (Lafayette Hotel)� Raymond Orteig� on May 19, 1919. Although that initial time limit lapsed without a serious challenger, the state of aviation technology had advanced sufficiently by 1924 to prompt Orteig to extend his offer for another five years, and this time it began to attract an impressive grouping of well known, highly experienced, and well financed contenders. Ironically, the one exception among these competitors was the still boyish Charles Lindbergh, a 25-year-old relative latecomer to the race, who, in relation to the others, was virtually anonymous to the public as an aviation figure, who had considerably less overall flying experience, and was being primarily financed by just a $15,000 bank loan and his own modest savings.[35] The first of the well-known challengers to actually attempt a flight was famed World War I French� flying ace� René Fonck� who on September 21, 1926, planned to fly eastbound from� Roosevelt Airfield� in New York in a three-engine� Sikorsky� S-35. Fonck never got off the ground, however, as his grossly overloaded (by 10,000� lbs) transport biplane crashed and burned on takeoff when its landing gear collapsed. (While Fonck escaped the flames, his two crew members, Charles N. Clavier and Jacob Islaroff, died in the fire.) U.S. Naval aviators� LCDR� Noel Davis and� LTStanton H. Wooster were also killed in a takeoff accident at� Langley Field,� Virginia, on April 26, 1927, while testing the three-engine Keystone Pathfinder biplane,� American Legion,� that they intended to use for the flight. Less than two weeks later, the first contenders to actually get airborne were French war heroes Captain� Charles Nungesser� and his navigator,� François Coli, who departed from� Paris - Le Bourget Airport� on May 8, 1927, on a westbound flight in the� Levasseur PL 8,� The White Bird� (L'Oiseau Blanc), although contact was lost with them after crossing the coast of� Ireland� and they were never seen nor heard from again.[36] American air racer� Clarence D. ... read more

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