Neophyte commercial aviation industry, then took it on a goodwill tour of Latinĭuring a stopover in Mexico City, he was hosted by U.S.Īmbassador Dwight Morrow. He was promoted from lieutenant to colonel in theįor the next five years, "Lucky Lindy" or "the Lone Eagle," as Lindbergh now was known to an adoring public, continued to live a hero's Congress presented him with theĬongressional Medal of Honor. In Washington, President Calvin Coolidge awarded Lindbergh theįirst-ever Distinguished Flying Cross. Lindbergh returned to New York, where he received a hero's welcome from four Was instantly mobbed by thousands of jubilant admirers from whom he literallyĪfter being feted by British and European monarchs, Landed at Le Bourget field near Paris at 10:21 p.m. Kilometers) after leaving New York, Lindbergh made aviation history when he Thirty-three and one-half hours and 3,610 miles (5,810 Then over England and the English Channel. He flew over the British Commonwealth republic, Nearly a day later, with great relief, Lindbergh spotted the Or "the Flying Fool" by a skeptical press corps-charted a course Magnetic compass to navigate, the 25-year-old aviator-dubbed "the Flying Kid" Trees and telephone wires near the field during its 7:52 a.m. It was so loaded down with fuel that it almost touched the Taxied his small, single-engine aircraft down the rainy runway at Long Island's Louisīusinessmen to share the $10,580 cost of custom-building an airplane, expresslyĪeronautical Company's M-2 strut-based monoplane the SpiritĪbout two hours after sunrise on May 20, 1927, Lindbergh Later, with the prize money still unclaimed, Lindbergh persuaded nine St. $25,000 to the first aviator to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. In 1919, Raymond Orteig, a New York hotel-owner, had offered Still, the fearless young flyer's greatest-and most Hundreds of hours in the air and been forced to parachute to safety at leastįour times. By his mid-twenties, Lindbergh had logged Louis, inaugurating a commercial airmail routeīetween that city and Chicago. Graduated from flight training school in San Antonio at the top of his class.Īfter completing his army service, he took a job as chief pilot with the Pilot when he enlisted in the Army Air Service in 1924. Lindbergh borrowed $500 from his father and bought a World War One surplusĪlthough just 22 years old, Lindbergh was already a skilled He toured the country with a veteran barnstormer who taught him how to wingwalk and parachute jump. Out and began a life of aerial adventure. Of Wisconsin to study mechanical engineering, the 20-year-old Lindbergh dropped Two years after enrolling at the University Raced around town, testing the limits of his courage-and honing his skills at Teenager, the thin, socially awkward young man acquired a motorcycle, which he Twin Falls, Minnesota, Charles Lindbergh was fascinated by speed. While growing up on a farm near the small midwestern town of Louis, stopping to pick up mail in Peoria and Springfield, Illinois. As chief pilot of Robertson Aircraft Corporation, Charles Lindbergh was given the honor of inaugurating the first flight on April 15, 1926, from Chicago's Maywood Field to St.
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