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This is irrelevant But I like pie. Hope that you guys can put from where he started and where he ended. That would be very helpful. Evangeline came from a prominent family in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in chemistry. The Lindberghs lived in Detroit until , when their house burned. The family moved to Little Falls, where Charles Sr.
While young Charles spent much of his childhood from to in Washington, DC, he preferred the outdoor life of Minnesota to the city life of Washington. He dreamed of becoming a pilot one day. Lindbergh was not a particularly good student in school. Instead, he was interested in mechanical things like cars, farm equipment, and motorcycles.
When the United States entered World War I in , Lindbergh was too young to join the armed forces, but he was excused from school to run the family farm for the war effort. This meant fewer trips to Washington DC for Lindbergh. When Lindbergh turned eighteen, his parents convinced him to enter the University of Wisconsin. He studied mechanical engineering, but he dropped out in his second year of study.
The company bought old military airplanes, fixed them up, and sold them to the public. Lindbergh learned about airplane mechanics and had the chance to fly with company pilots on a few occasions.
He even joined one of the pilots on a barnstorming tour. Lindbergh brought in customers by stepping out onto a wing of the airplane as he and the pilot flew into towns. After a second barnstorming tour with another pilot, Lindbergh went to Georgia to purchase his own army surplus airplane—a Curtiss Jenny.
Lindbergh spent a year barnstorming in his own plane and then decided to join the Army Air Service. The army flying school, which was in San Antonio, Texas, was very difficult. Lindbergh had little trouble flying the Jennies and De Havilland DH-4B trainer planes, but he had difficulty with the classroom topics like photography and mapmaking. He had to work hard, but his efforts paid off. Out of the cadets who entered the school in March , only 18 remained a year later.
Lindbergh graduated at the top of the class. After graduation, Lindbergh was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. Army and then moved to St. Louis where he became an officer in the Missouri National Guard.
With the new skills he had learned from the army, Charles Lindbergh was hired by Robertson Aircraft Corporation in St. He flew passengers and instructed flight students until when the company got a contract to fly airmail between St. Louis and Chicago. Lindbergh was made the chief pilot, responsible for scheduling and plotting the route. The flying was extremely hazardous. Airmail pilots were faced with poor weather, nighttime flying, and fatigue.
Lindbergh became an experienced aviator in the process, and it was during these flights that he began to consider the possibility of flying across the Atlantic Ocean.
The expedited schedule meant Lindbergh and other pilots flew at night with poor visibility, had to push through inclement weather, and suffered from fatigue. Lindbergh learned to deal with many of the dangerous variables of piloting, which prepared him for an audacious goal: making a transatlantic flight solo. While pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brown had made a nonstop transatlantic flight in June from Newfoundland to Ireland, it was only half the distance of Lindbergh's goal of flying from New York to Paris.
Lindbergh's decision to mount the first transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in required two elements: guts and technology. Lindbergh had developed the constitution for it, but still needed an aircraft that could make the mile flight.
Financed by the St. Because the plane needed additional fuel storage, everything extraneous was removed to lessen its weight—no radio, gas gauge, or parachute. Lindbergh even had to dispense with a window in his cockpit: The gas tank took over his front field of vision. He used a periscope to see instead. The sacrifices were worth it. Lindbergh made the flight, lifting off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island on May 20, , and arriving in Paris after The feat captured the public's attention for its boundary-breaking significance, with thousands of people greeting his plane upon landing.
To compound Lindbergh's grief, the ensuing trial of his son's accused killer became a media frenzy. Hauptmann was convicted and later executed in To escape the constant media attention, the couple moved to Europe, living in England and then France. Around this time, Lindbergh did some scientific research, inventing an early type of artificial heart with a French surgeon.
He also continued his work in aviation, serving on the board of directors for Pan-American World Airways and acting as a special advisor at times. Concerned that German air power was unbeatable, Lindbergh became involved with the America First Organization, which advocated that the United States stay neutral in the war in Europe.
His position on the war eroded his public support, and some believed that he had Nazi sympathies. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Lindbergh became active in the war effort, working with Henry Ford on bombers and acting as an advisor and test pilot for United Aircraft.
Louis , which won the Pulitzer Prize. He also lobbied for environmental preservation. In his later years, he and his wife moved to the Hawaiian island of Maui. Lindbergh died of cancer on August 26, , in his remote Maui home. Reports surfaced in that he had three other children with a German woman with whom he reportedly had a long-term affair.
Despite any personal controversies, Lindbergh is credited with helping to usher in the age of commercial aviation. His incredible acts of courage continue to inspire others.
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