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    The Mexican Lindbergh: Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez
    The Mexican Lindbergh: Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez
    The Mexican Lindbergh: Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez
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    The Mexican Lindbergh: Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez

    By Leticia Roa Nixon and Rosa Mercedes Pujols

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    At 22 years of age, Captain Carranza was considered The Mexican Lindbergh for his long-distance flights. Not only was he a pilot, but also a military man.
    In 1928, Captain Carranza set his goals in the The Goodwill Flight.

    Once completed his flight from Mexico City to Washington, DC the young wouldn't fly back in the middle of a bad storm if it wasn't for a telegram from General Amaro ordering to go back to Mexico immediately. His plane crashed shortly after he departed.

    Thanks to the Legion Post of Mount Holly, NJ every first weekend of July, there's a ceremony in memory of The Mexican Lindbergh.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 30, 2011
    ISBN9781463452766
    The Mexican Lindbergh: Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez
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    Leticia Roa Nixon

    We believe that there should be more biographies on extraordinary men and women that are not in existence at the present time in book form. As minority writers, we are aware that there are not many Latino biographies and we'd like to close that gap of information.

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      The Mexican Lindbergh - Leticia Roa Nixon

      © 2011 by Rosa Mercedes Pujols and Leticia Roa Nixon. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 11/17/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-5277-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-5276-6 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011914582

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      A TRAVELING CHILDHOOD

      RECORD-SETTING FLIGHTS

      ROMPIENDO RECORDS DE VUELOS DE LARGA DISTANCIA

      THE GOODWILL FLIGHT

      PREPARATIONS FOR THE FLIGHT

      PREPARATIVOS PARA EL VUELO

      THE MEXICO-EXCELSIOR TAKES OFF

      THE LAST FLIGHT

      EL ULTIMO VUELO

      THE FATEFUL TELEGRAM

      EL TELEGRAMA FATIDICO

      THE FALLEN AIRCRAFT

      EL AVION DESPLOMADO

      RETURN TO MEXICO

      EL REGRESO A MEXICO

      EPILOGUE

      EPILOGO

      AUTHORS COMMENTS

      COMENTARIOS DE LAS AUTORAS

      Selected Bibliography

      Bibliografía Selecta

      Glossary

      Glosario

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      Dedication

      To the American Legion—Post 11 of Mount Holly, New Jersey, USA and to the relatives of Captain Emilio Carranza Rodriguez.

      Dedicatoria

      A la Legión Americana—Puesto 11 de Mount Holly, Nueva Jersey, EUA y a los parientes del Capitán Emilio Carranza Rodríguez.

      A TRAVELING CHILDHOOD

      On December 9, 1905, Emilio Carranza Rodriguez was born in Mexico in Villa Ramos Arizpe, a small village in the northern state of Coahuila. He was the fourth child born to Sebastian Carranza Cepeda and Maria Dolores Rodriguez Gomez. Emilio and his family lived there until 1911 when the Mexican Revolution, which actually began November 20, 1910, escalated and became a threat to his family. His father, Don Sebastian, to protect his family from the armed struggle moved his wife and children Estela, Sebastian, Marietta, Jose, Emilio Guadalupe and Emilia to San Antonio, Texas in the United States of America.

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      President Venustiano Carranza

      Six years later, Emilio’s great uncle General Venustiano Carranza became the first constitutional president of Mexico and that same year the country’s Constitution was also drafted ending the possibility of a dictatorship in the country. Soon after, Don Sebastian felt it was safe for his family to return to Mexico. Once in the capital, closeness and admiration of his uncle, General Alberto Salinas Carranza, may have fueled his aspirations to become an aviator. General Alberto Salinas Carranza was a pioneer of Mexican aviation and founder of the Mexican School of Aviation.

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      Alberto Leopoldo Salinas Carranza

      Emilio accompanied his Uncle everyday to the Balbuena Airport in Mexico City. There he spent his time talking with the pilots, mechanics and technicians. He used these opportunities to ask endless questions about planes and flying, of these people that possessed knowledge he was so hungry for. The 12-year old Emilio loved to climb into the airplanes located in the assembly line and take imaginary flights. He always had a great time at the hangar, and years later, these days at the Balbuena Airport would pay off in his aviation career.

      Unfortunately, peace didn’t last long in Mexico. The Revolution that

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