Charles A. Lindbergh Letter from Hotel Marion - Page 1 (1927)

Page 1 of a handwritten letter from Charles A. Lindbergh to Donald A. Hall Sr. detailing the Santa Fe altitude test on Hotel Marion letterhead. — Charles A. Lindbergh Letter from Hotel Marion - Page 1 (1927) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Page 1 of Charles A. Lindbergh's landmark three-page letter to Donald A. Hall Sr., written on Hotel Marion stationery in Little Rock, Arkansas, on October 2, 1927. Lindbergh reports taking off from Santa Fe carrying 175 gallons of gasoline to verify Hall's high-density altitude performance calculations, describing how he climbed to 12,000 feet to clear severe mountain storms and flew blind above the cloud layer for five hours before finding an opening.