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.
I’m not sure how that first sentence connects to the others.
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.
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.).
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:
Lindbergh’s Flight Historical Marker Lindbergh's Flight Historical Marker
Lindbergh Flight Liftoff Recognition Starts To Soar | Garden City, NY Patch Lindbergh Flight Liftoff Recognition Starts To Soar | Garden City, NY Patch