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Autobiography

By: Charles A. Lindbergh

Date: 1927

Source: Lindbergh, Charles A. We. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927, 224–226.

About the Author: Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974) was born in in Detroit, Michigan. He enrolled in an Army flying school in Texas in 1924, becoming an airmail pilot in 1926. That year he received funding to compete for the $25,000 prize for the first nonstop flight between New York City and Paris. His flight the next year brought him world celebrity. Afterwards, Lindbergh flew across the United States, lecturing and making personal appearance to promote air travel. Thereafter he served as consultant to Ford Motor Company, United Aircraft Corporation, Pan American World Airway, and the U.S. Department of Defense. He died in 1974 in Hawaii.

Introduction

Flight has intrigued humans since antiquity, but only in the...