I travel a lot for work and they live in my bag, not treated gently. After six months the hinges are as firm as on day one, no play at all.
Thirty-three hours over the water.
On 21 May 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off from New York aboard the Spirit of St. Louis and landed at Le Bourget thirty-three and a half hours later, non-stop and without a radio. Four thousand eight hundred kilometres, alone, with nothing ahead but water.
He had stripped the aircraft of everything that did not help it fly, the forward windscreen included: he looked out through a periscope and a side window. A hundred thousand people were waiting for him in Paris.
The model that carries the name of the first Air Force One comes from the same idea of aerodynamics: technical joints left in sight, and no detail that will not hold the wind.
