Headphones, Radio, Lockheed Sirius "Tingmissartoq", Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh wore these radio headphones as she flew with her husband Charles to the Orient in 1931 and on survey flights across the North and South Atlantic in 1933. Anne, who served as co-pilot, operated all of the radio equipment during the Lindberghs' two trans-global flights, performing an impressive daily workload, and set a telegraph transmission distance record. She worked hard to learn Morse code and earn her radio operator's license, thus felt slightly insulted when women reporters seemed most interested in her clothes or where she packed the lunch boxes on the airplane. Charles, however, always recognized her importance to their success and called her "the crew," a term that made her proud.Radio equipment was extremely important to the Lindberghs on their trans-global flights. They were flying over vast stretches of unchartered territory in Canada, Alaska, and Siberia during their 1931 flight and Greenland, Africa, and Brazil during their 1933 flight, thus they relied on radio and navigation equipment to help them find their remote destinations.