Charles A. Lindbergh Biography

Born February 4, 1902 (Detroit, Michigan)
Died August 26, 1974 (Maui, Hawaii)

Aviator

"When I was a child on our Minnesota farm, I spent hours lying on my back . . . staring into the sky. . . . How wonderful it would be, I'd thought, if I had an airplane'wings with which I could fly up to the clouds and explore their caves and canyons. . . . Then, I would ride on the wind and be part of the sky."

One of the most popular heroes of the Roaring Twenties, Charles Lindbergh caught the world's imagination with his flight from New York City to Paris, flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean in a little less than thirty-four hours. A pioneer in the brand-new field of aviation, Lindbergh helped to transform airplane travel from the realm of daredevil stunt flyers and military pilots to a common mode of transportation for ordinary people. To the...

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