This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.
-- Harry Guggenheim, millionaire aviation enthusiast
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It [aviation] is a tool specially shaped for Western hand a scientific
art which others only copy in a mediocre fashion, another barrier
between the teeming millions of Asia and the Grecian inheritance of
Europe, one of those priceless possessions which permit the White
race to live at all in a pressing sea of Yellow, Black, and Brown....