![]() “here’s no denying the fact,” Lindbergh would later write Colonel Charles MacDonald, “that I never had a more fascinating time in my life than on those combat flights in the South Pacific.” But he never shook some of the horrifying memories he carried back from the war zones-the destruction, degradation, and deaths. At forty-two, he continued to work as a test pilot. ![]() He had not been in his Westport house an entire morning before he began commuting regularly either to the United Aircraft offices in Hartford or the Chance Vought factory in Stratford to discuss fighter design, new jet projects, fuel range, climb, speed, and firepower-still for no pay. The one I took for granted the other was too intangibleīECAUSE THE WAR NEVER HAD AN OFFICIAL BEGINNING FOR Lindbergh, it never had an official ending either. ![]() “ To me in youth, science was more important than either man or God. ![]()
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