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- Charles Lindbergh world's best-known aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh (4 February 1902 - 26 August 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle," was an American pilot famous for the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island...
- The Wright Brothers American brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first practical airplane. Creative tinkerers from a young age, they built a printing press and worked on bicycles before turning their attention toward flight. Beginning with kites and the...
- Lucky Lindy Charles Lindbergh was one of few barnstormers who were not enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Service during WWI. Being born in 1902 put him on the shy side of acceptance. As it was, his career as a barnstormer was largely unnoticed because of all those w...
- Male Pioneers in Aviation Who comes to mind when you think about male pioneers in aviation history? Right off, I think of the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh. There were many more. The photo above shows the Tuskegee Airmen marching across the campus of Tuskegee Institut...
- The Roaring Twenties Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, which emphasizes the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. 'Normalcy' returned to politics in the wake of World War I, jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern womanhood,...
- Aviation Between the Wars Spitfire. Tiger Moth. Empire. Maxim Gorky. Vega. Some of the aircraft defining The Golden Age of flying, names that resonate with aviation enthusiasts and beyond. Earhart. Hughes. Sikorsky. Lindbergh. Alcock and Brown. Tupolev. RJ Mitchell. Boeing....
