lindbergh

     

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Trivia about lindbergh

  • In 1927 this aviator was named Time magazine's first Man of the Year
  • At age 25, he won the Raymond Orteig prize of $25,000 for the first solo flight between New York & Paris
  • On May 20, 1927, according to the New York Times, he said, "'So long' as if he were off on an automobile trip"
  • On his May 1927 arrival in Paris, he worried about killing some in the crowd of 10,000 with his propeller
  • Pilot somewhere over the Atlantic, May 20, 1927
  • Admiral Byrd gave navigational training to him prior to his historic 1927 transatlantic solo flight
  • Anne Morrow
  • This courageous aviator was known as "the Lone Eagle"
  • A replica of his Spirit of St. Louis plane that was used in the 1957 movie is on display at the Missouri History Museum
  • In 1927 he returned to a hero's welcome less than a month after leaving Long Island for Paris
  • Early 20th century banker & politician Dwight Whitney Morrow was the father-in-law of this American hero
  • In her journals Anne Morrow called him "a knight in shining armor, with myself as his devoted page"
  • In the 1930s surgeon Alexis Carrel worked on designing an artificial heart with this aviator
  • A jacket named for this "Spirit"ed aviator became extremely popular in 1927
  • He was born Feb. 4, 1902 in Detroit; 25 years later, he'd become a world-famous hero for 2 days of work
  • In 1926 he was hired as chief pilot to carry airmail between Chicago & St. Louis
  • Denying his guilt to the end, Bruno Hauptmann was executed in 1936 for the kidnapping of this aviator's son