![]() ![]() While in the air, Lindbergh's plane ices up and stalls, forcing him to parachute out with the mailbag. Although snow seems imminent, Lindbergh takes off, unaware that the Chicago landing field has closed due to snow. In his room, Lindbergh reminisces about his former days as an air mail pilot flying over the Midwest: On a wintry night flight to Chicago, Lindbergh lands his antiquated De Haviland in a tiny air field to gas up. "Frank" Mahoney, guards his hotel room door from the numerous reporters who have waited with him for a break in the weather. While Lindbergh lies sleepless, his friend, B. "Slim" Lindbergh has been waiting for seven days for the rain to stop, so that he can embark on what he hopes will be man's first successful nonstop trans-Atlantic flight to Paris. In 1927, in a hotel near New York's Roosevelt Field, air pilot Charles A.
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