Lindy was an incredibly brave american pioneer (although not the first to cross the atlantic, even non stop, Alcock and Brown managed that some ten years previosly, he flew it solo) however his later years were marred by tragedy, and it is little known that he was an isolationist and suspected of being a nazi sympathiser, presumably the root of the line "There's a little trouble in the starboard(right) wing and a number of stukas (German dive bombers) are coming in"
Lindy was an incredibly brave american pioneer (although not the first to cross the atlantic, even non stop, Alcock and Brown managed that some ten years previosly, he flew it solo) however his later years were marred by tragedy, and it is little known that he was an isolationist and suspected of being a nazi sympathiser, presumably the root of the line "There's a little trouble in the starboard(right) wing and a number of stukas (German dive bombers) are coming in"