charles lindbergh

     

He said, "I saw a fleet of fishing boats, ...flew down...& yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland"

Trivia about charles lindbergh

  • About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..."
  • After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941
  • He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
  • Issues flew off the newsstand when this pilot was Man of the Year for 1927
  • He made headlines when he landed at Le Bourget Field, May 21, 1927
  • 1953:"The Spirit of St. Louis"
  • In 1922 this "Lone Eagle" learned to fly at a Lincoln, Nebraska flying school
  • In 1949 this aviator who flew the Atlantic solo in 1927 received the Wright Brothers Trophy from the N.A.A.
  • After his return from Europe in June of 1927, he received a hero's welcome & a ticker tape parade
  • Feb. 4, 1929:Carrying mail from Miami to Belize, this famed aviator inaugurates air mail service to Central America
  • San Diego, where the plane "Spirit of St. Louis" was built, named its airport for this man
  • 1954's winner was this man's book "The Spirit of St. Louis"
  • A dance called the Lindy Hop was associated with this aviation hero of the 1920s
  • Tasmanian-born Harold Gatty taught navigation to Anne Morrow, the wife of this "Lone Eagle"
  • This aviator's house in Little Falls, Minn. was the family home when his father served in Congress
  • He collected $25,000 for flying from New York to Paris in 1927
  • A. Scott Berg won in 1999 for a bio on this guy who won in 1954 with "The Spirit of St. Louis"
  • A 1932 federal kidnapping law bears the name of this man whose child was kidnapped in 1932
  • In 1951, Roosevelt Field, from which he made his famous 1927 flight, closed after 40 years in use
  • In May 1927 this American aviator became the first man to fly the Atlantic solo
  • A state park near Little Falls, Minnesota honors this aviator whose boyhood home is now a museum there
  • He's the American hero seen here(flying the "Spirit of St. Louis")
  • Anne Spencer Morrow's first date with this man, her future husband, was a flying lesson
  • In 1929 this American hero married Anne Spencer Morrow, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico
  • Eric Stoltz is heard here reading A. Scott Berg's biography of this man
  • The Who's Who 60, an all-time list in the 60th Edition, incudes this "aviator, b. Detroit, Feb. 4, 1902"
  • Although this "Lone Eagle" was a civilian, he flew about 50 combat missions towards the end of World War II
  • This hero who died in 1974 was pestered by disturbed men claiming to be his kidnapped son
  • Robert Goddard got his first ride in an airplane from this noted aviator who helped him get funding
  • Before his famous transatlantic flight, this man parachuted out of damaged planes 3 times while delivering mail
  • 6 foot 2, eyes of blue, this pilot was Time's Man of the Year for 1927
  • In the early 1930s surgeon Alexis Carrel & this American aviator invented a mechanical heart
  • In 1934 he plugged Bulova "Lone Eagle" watches
  • On May 21, 1927 this American landed in Paris & was welcomed by a crowd of about 100,000
  • On May 23, 1927 the New York Times reported that he said, "We (that's my ship and I) took off rather suddenly"
  • In March 1929 this pilot inaugurated the airmail service between Brownsville, Texas & Mexico
  • In 1927, Orville Wright, on the left, came face-to-face with this man, famous in the same field as Orville