![]() ![]() ![]() Louis sponsored by Harry Guggenheim and the Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, left Dec. Navy Commander Richard Byrd.ġ927 - The Ryan Aeronautical Company in San Diego built Lindbergh's plane by April, and the young 25-year old pilot crossed the country in 22 hours to arrive May 12 in New York, took off May 20 at 7:54 am from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, arrived at Le Bourget airfield near Paris May 21 at 10:54 pm, was overwhelmed by a crowd of 150,000 at the airport, returned to Washignton DC June 10 on the USS Memphis, was honored June 13 in NYC, wrote his book We for Putnam's in the month before he began on July 20 a 3-month tour of all 48 states in the Spirit of St. Louis with an inline Liberty engine, survived many mechanical failures and jumped safely from his falling plane 4 times began plans to win the Orteig Prize of $25,000 for the first nonstop New York-Paris flight, sought by other pilots in the U.S. Louis to Chicago in October.ġ926 - Lindbergh flew the inaugural air mail flight April 15 in his De Havilland biplane St. that won the federal Contract Air Mail route from St. Smith who with 5 Army pilots became the first to circumnavigate the globe in airplanes, flying 27,553 miles in 15 days.ġ925 - Lindbergh became chief pilot for Robertson Aircraft Corp. Louis and worked as a barnstormer and test pilot at Lambert Field was restless to join the pioneering aviation exploits of men like Capt Lowell H. 2, took job with the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation, became by 1923 a barnstorming pilot.ġ924 - Lindbergh joined the Army Air Service in March, graduated first in his class from the Army's Advanced Flying School, was commissioned as a second lieutenant, but moved to St. 4 in Detroit MI, and raised in Little Falls MNġ922 - Lindbergh left the University of Wisconsin Feb. 1902 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born Feb. ![]()
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