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[[Image:Lindbergh.jpg |right|250px|thumb|Charles Lindbergh]]
[[Image:Lindbergh.jpg |right|250px|thumb|Charles Lindbergh]]
'''Charles Lindbergh''' (1902-1974) 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 a hero to conservatives, and became the most well known opponent of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s foreign policy in the late 1930s.
'''Charles Lindbergh''' (1902-1974) 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.
==The flight==
==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.
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.