Modern Era · Europe · Technology
1927
Lindbergh lands in Paris
May 21, 1927
After thirty-three hours alone in a single-engine Spirit of St. Louis, chewing sandwiches and fighting sleep, Charles Lindbergh touched down at Le Bourget to a crowd of a hundred and fifty thousand. The first solo non-stop New York-to-Paris flight made him the most famous man alive. The airplane had shrunk the Atlantic.
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