Charles Augustus Lindbergh February 4, β August 26, was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20β21, , he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris , a distance of 3, miles 5, km , flying alone for His aircraft, the Spirit of St.
Although not the first transatlantic flight , it was the longest at the time by nearly 2, miles 3, km , the first solo transatlantic flight, and set a new flight distance world record.
Congressman Charles August Lindbergh. He became a U. Army Air Service cadet in The next year, he was hired as a U. Air Mail pilot in the Greater St. Louis area, where he began preparing to cross the Atlantic.
In , he and French surgeon Alexis Carrel began work on inventing the first perfusion pump , a device credited with making future heart surgeries and organ transplantation possible.
On March 1, , Lindbergh's first-born infant child, Charles Jr. The case prompted the U. By late , public hysteria from the case drove the Lindbergh family abroad to Europe, from where they returned in In the months before the United States entered World War II , Lindbergh's non-interventionist stance and statements about Jews and race led some to believe he was a Nazi sympathizer, although Lindbergh never publicly stated support for the Nazis and condemned them several times in both his public speeches and personal diary.
