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LINDBERGH, Charles A. Portion of printed map of James Bay and Lake Ontario, signed and inscribed ("Lindbergh, Orient Flight - 1931"), in pencil. Trimmed to a narrow, irregular shape (33 x 15 in.) and folded for easy reference in cockpit.
A MAJOR, LONG-DISTANCE LEG OF THE "NORTH TO THE ORIENT" FLIGHT WITH EXTENSIVE NAVIGATIONAL PLOTTINGS BY LINDBERGH. Here Lindbergh marks a course from Ottawa, where the Lindberghs had been graciously entertained by Canadian air officials, and where Charles Lindbergh was also somewhat testily challenged on the unorthodox route of his flight (over vast, uninhabited northern regions). But that was precisely the challenge that Lindbergh wanted to take up in this northern arc to Asia from New York, and here his pencilled route moves northwesterly in a nearly perfect straight line for 400 miles from Ottawa to Moose Factory at the mouth James Bay. There his course tilts slightly westward and a new mileage sequence begins, stretching another 500 miles along the coast of James Bay, with the mileage ticked off at 10-mile intervals. The thick lines denoting the clusters of human civilization around Lake Ontario in the south are washed out in the almost blank northern regions of the map into which the Lindberghs flew.
A MAJOR, LONG-DISTANCE LEG OF THE "NORTH TO THE ORIENT" FLIGHT WITH EXTENSIVE NAVIGATIONAL PLOTTINGS BY LINDBERGH. Here Lindbergh marks a course from Ottawa, where the Lindberghs had been graciously entertained by Canadian air officials, and where Charles Lindbergh was also somewhat testily challenged on the unorthodox route of his flight (over vast, uninhabited northern regions). But that was precisely the challenge that Lindbergh wanted to take up in this northern arc to Asia from New York, and here his pencilled route moves northwesterly in a nearly perfect straight line for 400 miles from Ottawa to Moose Factory at the mouth James Bay. There his course tilts slightly westward and a new mileage sequence begins, stretching another 500 miles along the coast of James Bay, with the mileage ticked off at 10-mile intervals. The thick lines denoting the clusters of human civilization around Lake Ontario in the south are washed out in the almost blank northern regions of the map into which the Lindberghs flew.