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Misty Friday Morning, May 20, 1927
At 2:30 a.m. on a misty Friday morning, May 20, 1927, Lindbergh rode from the Garden City Hotel, where he and the other contestants were staying, to Curtiss Field to prepare for take-off.
Even at that early hour, 500 on-lookers waited.
At 4:15 a.m. the rain stopped.
Lindbergh ate one of the six sandwiches he had been given the night before and ordered the Spirit of St. Louis to be wheeled outside.
The weather had been too bad the night before to move the plane to Roosevelt Field.
Six Nassau County motorcycle patrolmen escorted the concealed plane, which was tied to the back of a truck, and was hauled across the deeply rutted road to Roosevelt Field, where Lindbergh had planned to make his departure.
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Excerpt from:
The Spirit of St. Louis: Charles Lindbergh’s Historic Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
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Misty Friday Morning, May 20, 1927
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