![]() Starting on Jand continuing through October 23, 1927, Lindbergh and the Spirit visited 82 cities and covered some 22,000 air miles in over 260 hours of flying. With the financial backing of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, a plan was drawn up for Lindbergh to visit at least one city in each of the 48 states. Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim, the millionaire philanthropist whom Lindbergh had met before his successful New York to Paris flight, conceived of a national air tour in the Spirit of St. Lindbergh was not a person comfortable with the limelight, but he was interested in promoting aviation and realized that there was an opportunity for him to do that using his new-found fame. The adulation of Lindbergh and the desire to see him in person and to hear him speak was just getting started. Lindbergh was virtually pulled out of his plane and carried around by the cheering crowd.Īfter a few brief flights in Europe in the Spirit, Lindbergh returned to the United States where he received a medal from President Calvin Coolidge in Washington, D.C., followed by a ticker-tape parade in New York City two days later. People rushed forward to get a glimpse of the daring American aviator and his plane. Crowds mobbed his plane even before it had come to a stop. When Lindbergh landed in Paris, his life changed forever. He made the successful crossing on May 20-21, 1927, flying solo in a single-engine Ryan monoplane nicknamed the Spirit of St. Lindbergh, an obscure 25-year-old air mail pilot, became an international celebrity when he became the first aviator to cross the Atlantic Ocean non-stop from New York to Paris, France. Louis, August 6, 1927īy: Scott Gampfer, Associate Vice President for Collections & Preservation The Queen City welcomes Charles Lindbergh and is Spirit of St.
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