Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902 - 1974), American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. Photographed here on his first Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on the 20-21 May 1927, made from Roosevelt Field located in Garden City on New York's Long Island, Ireland and England then onto Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, the following day, a distance of nearly 3, 600 statute miles (5, 800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine
Picture No
13846823
Media ID
45751484
Size
3828px x 5415px
(3.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Fox and Topical Press in The Story of Seventy Momentous Years', page 142
Date
1927
