We (that’s my ship and I) took off rather suddenly. We had a report somewhere around 4 o’clock in the afternoon before that the weather would be fine, so we thought we would try it.

In this offhand, conversational recollection, Lindbergh frames a momentous decision—taking off—almost as an improvised response to a favorable weather report. The parenthetical “that’s my ship and I” personifies the aircraft and underscores the intimate pilot-machine partnership central to early aviation, when a flight’s success depended as much on judgment and endurance as on engineering. The understatement (“rather suddenly,” “so we thought we would try it”) conveys the pragmatic risk-taking ethos of pioneering flight: decisions were made with incomplete information, and “trying it” could entail extreme danger. The quote’s tone also suggests how extraordinary feats can be narrated as a chain of ordinary choices.