Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on February 4th, 1902 in Detroit Michigan. His parents were Charles August Lindbergh and Evangeline Lodge Land. His father was a U.S. Congressman (R-Mn) from 1907 to 1917 and his mother a school teacher. They separated when young Charles was 4 years old in 1907. Charles spent his childhood and teenage years living in Washington D.C. to California. This is evident by the fact that he attended over dozen schools, most for less than a year till he graduated from Little Falls High School in 1918.
Having always been interested in motorized mechanics it was not surprising that he entered the University of Wisconsin in 1920 as a mechanical engineering student. Though he never flew it was at school that he became fascinated with flying. He dropped out of school in February 1922 and moved to Lincoln Nebraska to enter as a student to learn how to fly at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation. It was 9 days after entering the school that he flew for the first time as a passenger in a 2 seat bi-plane. It was several days later that he took his first flying lesson.
It was in May 1923 that Lindbergh took his first solo flight in a World War I surplus Curtiss JN-4 biplane at Souther Field in Americus Georgia. Several weeks later he took his first cross country solo flight barnstorming across the country under the name "Daredevil Lindbergh. In October 1925 while working as an aviator instructor he was hired by the Robertson Aircraft Corporation to head up,the new Contract Air Mail Rte#2 providing service from Louisville to Chicago, a 278 mile route with stops that included Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
On May 20th, 1925 Lindbergh made a heroic flight from Roosevelt Field just outside of New York City to He landed his plane the Spirit of St. Louis 33.5 hours later at Le Bourget airport in Paris France to become the first pilot to successfully complete a non-stop flight across the Atlantic. It was reported that 150,000 spectators were waiting for him to land in Paris that day when the crowd carried him through the field for a half hour in rejoice of his feat. This achievement made this unknown postal service flier famous throughout the world. He won the Orteig Prize, $25,000 established by Raymond Orteig, a New York hotel owner.
Aside from his $25,000 Orteig Prize Lindbergh won other accolades and metals such as the Medal of Honor, Congressional Gold Medal, Pulitzer Prize, Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of Honour from France and Air Force Cross from Briton. This great American distinguished himself not only as an aviator but he was also successful as an author, an inventor, an explorer and as an environmentalist. Lindberg lived his final days on the Maui island of Hawaii where he died on August 26th, 1974 of lymphoma at the age of 72.
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