AERONAUTICS: A New Spirit

Eighty thousand miles under her wings, the Spirit of St. Louis is soon to be retired. But the famed "We" partnership is not to be dissolved.

Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh is to have a new plane, built like the Spirit of St. Louis by the same painstaking builder, B. F. Mahoney, at the same place, San Diego, Calif. And, likewise, Hero Lindbergh is to be her only pilot.

In general, the new plane duplicates the old. It will have slight changes in design: larger fin, larger rudder, larger stabilizer, to insure improved control....

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