Charles Lindbergh, American aviator, arrives in Paris
May 20, 1927 - Paris, France - CHARLES LINDBERGH (1902-1974) (nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy and The Lone Eagle) was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. Lindbergh, then a 25-year old U.S. Air Mail pilot, emerged from virtual obscurity to almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prizewinning solo non-stop flight in 1927, from Roosevelt Field in Garden City, Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS. PICTURED: Lindbergh arrives greeted by a crowd
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