SUMMARY

Aboard the Latécoère 521 giant flying boat, "Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris," piloted by his friend Henri Guillaumet, the two aviation pioneers made the first nonstop transatlantic crossing from Biscarrosse to New York, paving the way for the opening of the future scheduled service by Air France.
On August 3, 1939, Saint-Exupéry recounted this historical flight during a radio interview at NBC studios and expressed his admiration for the Rockefeller Center's modern architecture and great interest in the City of New York. He also explained that he had accepted to write the preface to Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book, "Listen! The Wind."
A recording of this unique interview was recently discovered in the archives of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.