Charles A. Lindbergh Aviator und amerikanischen Helden. In den frühen Morgenstunden des Freitag, 20. Mai 1927, Lindbergh von Roosevelt Field über den Atlantik nach Paris, Frankreich. Seine eindecker war mit 450 US-Gallonen Kraftstoff, die wiederholt belastet wurde die Kraftstoffleitung Blockierung zu vermeiden geladen. Das Flugzeug wog ungefähr 2.710 lb, und der Start wurde durch einen schlammigen, regen-getränkten Landebahn behindert. Lindbergh's monoplan wurde durch ein J-5C Wright Wirbelwind Sternmotor angetrieben und Geschwindigkeit sehr langsam während der 7:52 Uhr Abflug, aber gelöscht Telefonleitungen ganz am Ende des Feldes.

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim, [1] was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize–making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. He covered the 33 1⁄2-hour, 3, 600 statute miles (5, 800 km) alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. This was the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and mainland Europe. Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat. His achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and Lindbergh himself devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. Lindbergh's historic flight and celebrity status led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what American media called the "Crime of the Century" and described by H. L. Mencken as "the biggest story since the Resurrection". The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with his victim. By late 1935 the hysteria surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into voluntary exile in Europe, from which they returned in 1939. Before the United States formally entered World War II, some people accused Lindbergh of being a fascist sympathizer. An advocate of non-interventionism he supported the antiwar America First Committee, which opposed American aid to Britain in its war against Germany, and resigned his commission in the United States Army Air Forces in 1941 after President Franklin Roosevelt publicly rebuked him for his views.

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