Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on 4 February 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 teacher. They divorced when the 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 is more than a dozen schools, most for less than a year he lived until little falls High School in 1918 studied.
Have always been interested in motorized mechanics was not surprising that he is the University of Wisconsin in 1920 as a student of mechanical engineering. Although 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 on the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation. It was 9 days after entering the school that he first flew as a passenger in a 2 seat bi-plane. It was a few days later 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. A few weeks later he took his first solo cross country flight barnstorming across the country under the name "Daredevil Lindbergh. In October 1925, while working as a pilot-instructor he was hired by the Robertson Aircraft Corporation at the head of the new Contract Air Mail Route # 2 service from Louisville to Chicago, a 278 mile route with stops that included Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
On May 20, 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 Le Bourget airport in Paris, France the first pilot to successfully complete a non-stop flight across the Atlantic. It was reported that 150,000 spectators were to wait for him to land in Paris that day when the crowd carried him through the field, for half an hour in Verheugen of his feat. This achievement made this unknown postal service flier famous all over the world. He won the $ 25,000 Orteig Prize, founded by Raymond Orteig, the owner of a New York hotel.
Apart from his $ 25,000 Orteig Prize Lindbergh won other awards and metals such as the Medal of Honor, Congressional Gold Medal, Pulitzer Prize, Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of honour of France and Air Force Cross for Brit. this major u.s. distinguished himself not only as a kite, but he was also successful as an author, an inventor, an Explorer and as an environmental activist. Lindberg lived his last days on Maui island of Hawaii, where he died on 26 August 1974 from Lymphoma at the age of 72.
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