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[[Image:Lindbergh.jpg |right|250px|thumb|Charles Lindbergh]]
[[Image:Lindbergh.jpg |right|250px|thumb|Charles Lindbergh]]
'''Charles Lindbergh''' was an aviation pioneer. In 1927 he became the first to fly solo, non-stop, from [[New York]] to [[Paris]]. This feat created a sensation and he was welcomed by enormous crowds in France and, on his return, in New York. He was known as "Lucky Lindy" and inspired a dance, the "Lindy Hop."
'''Charles Lindbergh''' was an aviation pioneer. In 1927 he became the first to fly solo, non-stop, from [[New York]] to [[Paris]]. This feat created a sensation and he was welcomed by enormous crowds in France and, on his return, in New York. He was known as "Lucky Lindy" and inspired a dance, the "Lindy Hop."
==The flight==
Lindbergh was bold in using a single-engine plane and in flying solo. He argued that aircraft engines were now reliable enough to be counted on, and that the loss of a single engine in a multi-engine aircraft would be so serious that having several engines increased, rather than reduced, the risk. Bolder, perhaps, was his decision to fly alone, meaning that he needed to remain awake for 33 hours.
Across the globe people projected on the flight their own emotions, which typically involved two themes. Looking to the past. the achievement was a brief escape from the course of history, an emergence into a new and open world with the self-sufficient individual at its center. Looking to the future the flight represented a new and higher stage in historical evolution and that its fulfillment lay in the development of society. For some Americans, the American ideal was an escape from institutions, from the forms of society, and from limitations put upon the free individual; for others, the American ideal was the elaboration of the complex institutions which made modern society possible, an acceptance of the discipline of the machine, and the achievement of the individual within a context of which he was only a part. The two views were contradictory but both can be seen in the public reaction to Lindbergh's flight.<ref> Ward (1958)</ref>
==Kidnapping==
==Kidnapping==
Lindbergh's life was touched with tragedy when his twenty-month-old baby was kidnapped, and ultimately killed, by Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
Lindbergh's life was touched with tragedy when his twenty-month-old baby was kidnapped, and ultimately killed, by Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
* Berg, A. Scott. ''Lindbergh'' (1999), the best biography [http://www.amazon.com/Lindbergh-Scott-Berg/dp/0425170411/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229819245&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Berg, A. Scott. ''Lindbergh'' (1999), the best biography [http://www.amazon.com/Lindbergh-Scott-Berg/dp/0425170411/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229819245&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Mosely, Leonard. ''Lindbergh: A Biography'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Lindbergh-Biography-Leonard-Mosley/dp/0486409643/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229819245&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Mosely, Leonard. ''Lindbergh: A Biography'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Lindbergh-Biography-Leonard-Mosley/dp/0486409643/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229819245&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Ward, John William. "The Meaning of Lindbergh's Flight," American Quarterly 10, no. 1 (Spring 1958) pp 3-16 [http://www.h-net.org/~hst203/readings/ward.html online]
====Notes====
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