# Lindbergh's navigating to Paris **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 21, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindberghs-navigating-to-paris/586325 "2011-06-21T18:48:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindberghs-navigating-to-paris/586325/61 "2025-08-18T03:01:57Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > At the time of Lindbergh’s flight, the island was connected to Manhattan Island by several bridges; a bridge to the mainland (the Bronx) wasn’t built until 1929. > > I live a mile from Roosevelt Field and drive by it on my way to work 3 miles away; I work near the site of the former Mitchel Air Force Base overlooking the back of the Cradle of Aviation museum. The site of Roosevelt Field is now a mall; there used to be a plaque commemorating the flight, but Wikipedia says that it was taken down during a 2010 renovation and not replaced. I remember hearing years ago that by defining Long Island as a peninsula, Whidbey Island is the longest island in the U.S. Don’t know if it’s true, and Whidbey is also connected to the mainland by a bridge. Too bad the plaque is gone. I still want to visit the site of Lindberg’s takeoff, someday. I’ve been to Le Bourget already, and the French Air and Space Museum. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindberghs-navigating-to-paris/586325/62 "2025-08-18T16:37:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Too bad the plaque is gone. I still want to visit the site of Lindberg’s takeoff, someday. I’ve been to Le Bourget already, and the French Air and Space Museum. I’m not sure how that first sentence connects to the others. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindberghs-navigating-to-paris/586325/63 "2025-08-18T16:55:33Z")
gkster said the plaque commemorating Lindberg’s flight was removed during a renovation, and not replaced. I think it’s a bit sad when markers like that go missing; a step on the way to forgetting where famous events took place. I like visiting places like that. There’s a tiny marker at the site of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. A concrete pad and post at the site of the Hindenburg disaster. I think I know where the Brinks Robbery took place, but there’s nothing to mark the site. I’m sure I can find the mall that used to be Roosevelt Field. ---
**Author:** ![Dahu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahu/32/3416_2.png) [@Dahu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahu)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindberghs-navigating-to-paris/586325/64 "2025-08-18T21:45:05Z")
Solo is more impressive, but it wasn’t a condition of the Orteig Prize (I know you didn’t say it was, but just wanted to clear that up FQ etc.). ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindberghs-navigating-to-paris/586325/65 "2025-08-20T01:58:06Z")
OK, I can’t find the article about the plaque commemorating the flight in Roosevelt Field mall being gone, but there are 2 other markers on spots that are supposedly more geographically accurate: [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/nyregion/grandson-takes-off-in-tribute-to-1927-flight-of-charles-lindbergh.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.fk8.0rMH.1EADYnwZl-dq&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/nyregion/grandson-takes-off-in-tribute-to-1927-flight-of-charles-lindbergh.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk8.0rMH.1EADYnwZl-dq&smid=url-share) Lindbergh’s Flight Historical Marker [Lindbergh's Flight Historical Marker](https://share.google/FJOGZrr5kRnYrc6nZ) Lindbergh Flight Liftoff Recognition Starts To Soar | Garden City, NY Patch [Lindbergh Flight Liftoff Recognition Starts To Soar | Garden City, NY Patch](https://share.google/W7xar4v04kQLW2RQv) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindberghs-navigating-to-paris/586325.md?page=3)