6 German Trade Cards incl. Lindbergh's Flight, issued in the same year! (1927)

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Offered here is a complete set of six German trade cards (Series 6) on flying records set in the 1920s, including Charles Lindbergh's famous first-ever transatlantic flight. The cards were issued by the Erdal Shoe Polish Company in 1927, the same year as Lindbergh’s flight! Pictured here are:
Picture 1
: Lindbergh and the first successful transatlantic flight. Lindbergh was the first pilot to succeed in flying non-stop between New York and Paris. He flew alone on the flight, an accomplishment that may not duplicated for a long time. He started the flight on May 20, 1927 at 7:50 am in his plane, the “Spirit of St. Louis” from a field in New York and landed the next day at 10:22 am at the LeBourget airfield in Paris, France. The flight took 33 and ½ hours and covered 3,610 miles (6,000 kilometers). Lindbergh received great acclaim in Paris, London and the U.S. after the flight.
Picture 2:
Chamberlin and Levine Cross the Atlantic. The second transatlantic flight was undertaken by Clarence Chamberlin and his passenger Charles Levine, the owner of the aircraft that he named “Miss Columbia”. The flight began on June 4, 1927 and lasted 43 hours. Because of a lack of fuel, they had to land in Eisleben, Germany (near the city of Halle). From there they flew to Kottbus and then to their original goal: Berlin. Chamberlin flew 3,905 miles (7,300 kilometers). Chamberlin and Levine subsequently traveled around Europe where they were greatly acclaimed.
Picture 3:
Commander Richard Byrd, Conqueror of the North Pole and Ocean by Airplane. The American Commander was the first to fly over the North Pole in 1925. On June 29, 1927 he and his companions, Goerge Noville and Bert Acosta, flew across the Atlantic and arrived the next day at the French coast at about 7 pm. Because of heavy fog, he was not able to land in Paris, although he flew over the airport there. He continued the flight and at 2:32 am the plane did a water landing near Ver-sur-Mer, France. The flight covered 3,447 miles and was the first transatlantic passenger and postal flight of record. they, too, received great acclaim in Europe and the U.S.
Picture 4:
The Around-the-World Flight of Schlee and Brock. Two American pilots of German ethnicity, Schlee and Brock, undertook the last transoceanic flight of 1927 when they flew from New York to Tokyo in their plane named “The Pride of Detroit”. They started in Harbor Grace and landed the next day in London, at the Croydon Airfield. They then continued their flight over the European continent, reaching Munich, Belgrade, Constantinople, Karachi, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and finally Tokyo. There, their around-the-world flight came to an end, because spare parts for their plane could not be found so that repairs could be done.
Picture 5:
The German Record-Setters Ristiicz and Edzard. While throughout the year 1927 various flights were being made from the U.S. to Europe, German flyers were also attempting to do the same in the opposite direction. The Junkers Aircraft Company works in Dessau outfitted two airplanes in conjunction with the pilots Loose and Risticz. On May 5, 1927 they did a test flight between Dessau and Leipzig during which the pilots Risticz and Edzard kept the plane aloft for some 52 hours and 23 minutes, covering more than 7,000 kilometers. This flight was a record for the length of time continuously in the air, a record that none of the American pilots had been able to surpass. The actual flight from Europe to the U.S. by the two planes, the “Europa” and the “Bremen” had to be cut short, however, because of bad weather.
Picture 6:
The German East Asian Pilot Koenecke. The former air force pilot of WW1 who had receved the medal Pour le merite, Koenecke also wanted to fly from Germany to U.S. across the Atlantic. He wanted to fly from Cologne to the U.S. in the summer of 1927, but bad weather made him give up that idea and to choose instead to fly to East Asia. The Caspar Airplane Co. built him a special aircraft, named the “Germania” with which he was able to complete his flight to the East. Accompanied by Count zu Solms-Laubach and a radio man, he departed on September 20
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and flew to Angora, Basra and Bagdad in quick order. The Count, however, was injured during a rough landing and was not able to complete the flight with the others.
Each card measures 4 and ¼ inches by 2 and ¾ inches.
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