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#OnThisDay in 1931, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles A. Lindbergh, took off on a survey flight from Long Island to China, to scout out a commercial route to Asia for Pan American Airways. Anne flew with Charles as navigator and radio operator and took over for him when he was tired on long flights. A licensed pilot herself, together they embarked on several of commercial aviation’s most well publicized survey flights. Image: Mid-Week Pictorial magazine cover, August 15, 1931, 1931. Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family. 2012.149.1086
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