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Object Name: Rations, Emergency, Charles A. Lindbergh
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A19330035002

	Object Name
	Rations, Emergency, Charles A. Lindbergh

	Metadata Usage
	Not determined

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9a0376605-9855-4a2c-92bc-164da2d82815

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Materials
	Tin-plated steel

	Dimensions
	3-D: 7.6 x 3.8 x 11.4cm (3 x 1 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

	Physical Description
	Canned food in tin-plated steel can, painted gray, stencilled "U.S. Army Emergency Ration"; paint scratched and peeling.

	Summary
	In early 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh entered the competition for the $25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteig for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris.

	Summary
	In February Lindbergh placed an order with Ryan Airlines in San Diego for an aircraft with specifications necessary to make the flight. Lindbergh flew the aircraft from San Diego to New York on May 10—12, making only one stop, at St. Louis.

	Summary
	Lindbergh took off from NY for Paris on the morning of May 20, 1927. Thirty-three hours, 30 minutes, and 3,610 miles later he landed safely at Le Bourget Field, near Paris.

	Summary
	From July 20 until October 23 of that year he took the famous plane on a 48 state tour of the United States.

	Summary
	Then, on December 13, he and the Spirit of St. Louis flew nonstop from Washington to Mexico City; through Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico; and nonstop from Havana to St. Louis.

	Summary
	This object is in a grouping of items that Charles A. Lindbergh took with him on his 1927-1928 "Good Will" tour of Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean Isles, as well as his non-stop return flight to the St. Louis from Havana, Cuba.

	Summary
	On April 30, 1928, the Spirit of St. Louis made its final flight—from St. Louis to Washington, D.C where Lindbergh presented the aircraft to the Smithsonian Institution.

	Country of Origin
	United States of America

	Credit Line
	Donated by Charles A. Lindbergh

	Inventory Number
	A19330035002

	Date
	1927

	Type
	PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Food & Food Accessories

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