The flight also earned him the highest French order of merit, civil or military, the Legion of Honor. Lindbergh received the United States' highest military decoration from President Calvin Coolidge, the Medal of Honor, as well as the Distinguished Flying Cross for his transatlantic flight. Louis area, where he started to prepare for his historic 1927 transatlantic flight. Army Air Corps Reserve in 1924, earning the rank of second lieutenant in 1925. Congressman from Minnesota Charles August Lindbergh. Lindbergh was raised mostly in Little Falls, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C., the son of prominent U.S. It was one of the most consequential flights in aviation history and ushered in a new era of transportation between parts of the globe. Though the first non-stop transatlantic flight had been completed eight years earlier, this was the first solo transatlantic flight, the first transatlantic flight between two major city hubs, and the longest transatlantic flight by almost 2,000 miles. Lindbergh covered the 33 + 1⁄ 2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. At the age of 25, he achieved instant world fame by making the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris on May 20–21, 1927. Charles Augustus Lindbergh (Febru– August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist.

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