fiery Astrid's

flight through turbulence begins in 1927...

The place is the city of Paris, France, and the occasion is the arrival of "The Spirit of St. Louis," the plane which Charles A. Lindbergh has flown non-stop across the Atlantic from New York.

Lindbergh's plane has just completed the world's first solo flight across the Atlantic and arrives in Paris in the midst of great excitement and fanfair. It is the beginning of a new age for flight. This flight symbolizes new dreams and hopes. Humans are miraculously able to fly, and to fly far. There is new hope of touching others across the seas and around the world: faster, better and easier. Flight becomes the symbol for a new age of global relations. Dare we dream of touching the stars?

* * * The dream was at first realized. The trans-Atlantic commercial flights are common-place now, as we travel from city to city, country to country, and continent to continent. But as with all dreams which come true, come also the painful moments. The year 1927 was less than a decade past the first world war, and only a dozen years away from the second world war which was still to come. Personal grief and a loss of reputation were only some of the pains which marred the memory of the Lindbergh flight and dream. Flight became a weapon of war as well as a a means to aim for new heights and great distances. As with most things in life, flight became a means of liberation and oppression both. The use of the object, depends on the intent of the mind which holds it.

Welcome to these personal and sometimes turbulent pages... but may you enjoy this flight in cyberspace.

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This webpage was originally created on February 1, 1996, and was last updated and validated
at the website of WDG HTML Validator by Astrid Terras on February 2, 2003.
The old address for this page was at Geocities "Paris/3056/year1927.html."
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