Bert Acosta: Difference between revisions

On June 29, 1927, thirty-three days after [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s record setting [[transatlantic flight]], Acosta flew from [[Roosevelt Field, New York|Roosevelt Field]] on Long Island to France with Commander Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]] aboard the ''[[America (airplane)|America]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/America-NX206.htm |title=

The Trans-Atlantic Flight of the 'America' |accessdate=2008-11-11 |quote= |publisher=Check-Six }}</ref> TheA short film of Acosta, Byrd, George Neville, and [[Grover Whalen]] giving a farewell speech was filmed in the [[Phonofilm]] sound-on-film process on June 29 and released as ''America's Flyers''. During the flight, the (perhaps apocryphal) story was that Byrd had to hit Acosta over the head with a fire extinguisher or a flashlight when he got out of control from drinking during their flight.<ref name=natural>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Pilot's Pilot |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883487,00.html |quote=Long before anyone ever heard of Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Post or Earhart, one of aviation's big names was Bert Acosta. Famed as a 'natural' among pilots, he probably had a greater talent for flying than any man before or since. But like many another early barnstormer and stunter, he took to the fleshpots on earth as an offset to his work in the air. His life, consequently, became a rowdy romance in which brawls, jails and domestic entanglements were due to play a large part. |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date= June 10, 1935 |accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref>