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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris , a distance of 3,600 miles (5,800 km), flying alone for 33.5 hours.
12 April 1972: Famed pioneer aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, Brigadier General, United States Air Force Reserve, with a television news team investigating reports of a “lost tribe” in the Tasaday mountains of Mindanao, Republic of the Philippines, were stranded on a 3,000-foot (915 meter) jungle ridge line when their support helicopter ...
Photo Archive by Donald A. Hall: Designer of the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh – An American Aviator; Raymond Orteig-$25,000 prize, Charles Lindbergh – An American Aviator "Lindbergh's Great Partner", Popular Science, August 1927 pp. 12–13/123-125, one of earliest articles on Spirit of St. Louis. B.F. Mahoney was the "mystery man ...
English: (31 Dec 1927) Story 1 - 04:00:00 106.1 - FIRST PICTURES OF LINDBERGH AS HE REACHES PARIS IN FLIGHT FROM NEW YORK Silent B/W 1927 - Charles Lindbergh landing in The Spirit of St. Louis at Roosevelt Field, New York City, his departure from N.Y., and his arrival and reception in Paris.
Charles Lindbergh's last pay check as an RAC Air Mail pilot. A Robertson DH-4 used on the CAM-2 Air Mail route. On April 15, 1926, Robertson Aircraft started Contract Air Mail service over route CAM-2 from Lambert Field to Chicago, with stops in Springfield, Illinois, and Peoria, Illinois; Charles Lindbergh was employed as chief pilot for the service. [3]
Lindbergh was decorated in the U.S. and abroad, being awarded the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Flying Cross, and eventually a Pulitzer Prize in America; an Air Force Cross in the U.K.; a ...
A new photograph of Charles, 75, was released on Saturday, June 29. “A new portrait of The King has been released to mark Armed Forces Day. His Majesty is Commander-in-Chief of the Armed ...
Roosevelt Field was the takeoff point for many historic flights in the early history of aviation, including Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo transatlantic flight. [1] It was also used by other pioneering aviators, including Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post.