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Cooley Hurd

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5. If by TSA, you mean Tear the Spirit Apart, he did have trouble:

Reply to dembotoz (Reply #2)

Sat May 20, 2017, 08:03 AM

May 2017

A crowd estimated at 150,000 stormed the field, dragged Lindbergh out of the cockpit, and literally carried him around above their heads for "nearly half an hour". Some damage was done to the Spirit (especially to the fine linen, silver-painted fabric covering on the fuselage) by souvenir hunters before pilot and plane reached the safety of a nearby hangar with the aid of French military fliers, soldiers, and police.

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90 Years ago this morning; Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field, LI on his way to Paris [View all] Cooley Hurd May 2017 OP

Wishing him all the luck in the world! Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #1

If he took off from Roosevelt Field today, he'd run smack into Penney's! Cooley Hurd May 2017 #3

There's something really wrong with that... Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #6

It has those too. Big ones, from what I remember. JHB May 2017 #9

Wonder if he had trouble with tsa? dembotoz May 2017 #2

... still waiting to get through TSA. Long wait... RKP5637 May 2017 #4

If by TSA, you mean Tear the Spirit Apart, he did have trouble: Cooley Hurd May 2017 #5

I'm sorry, but in my mind his Nazi sympathies really taint his achievement. roamer65 May 2017 #7

and his whereabouts when Amelia Earhardt went "missing" still can't be explained Bucky May 2017 #8

Jimmy Stewart.. speaktruthtopower May 2017 #10

Lindbergh would have been a Trump supporter DefenseLawyer May 2017 #11

You provided the context... Cooley Hurd May 2017 #12