Charles Lindbergh — об авторе
- Родился: 4 февраля 1902 г. , Detroit, MI, US
- Умер: 26 августа 1974 г. , Kipahulu, HI, US
Биография — Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist.
Charles A. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1902. His family moved to Little Falls, Minnesota when he was a toddler, though Lindbergh spent much of his childhood in Washington, D.C., where his father, Charles August Lindbergh was a U.S. Congressman.
Lindbergh learned to fly planes in 1922 after quitting college. He got his start in aviation as a barnstormer. Barnstormers were pilots who traveled the country performing aerobatic stunts and selling airplane rides.
He joined the United States Army Air Service in 1924, but the Army didn’t need active-duty pilots at the time, so…
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At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York to Paris. Lindbergh covered the 33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. Although not the first non-stop transatlantic flight, this was the first solo transatlantic flight, the first transatlantic flight between two major city hubs, and the longest transatlantic flight by almost 2,000 miles, thus it is widely considered a turning point in the development of aviation.
Титулы, награды и премии
Lindbergh received many awards, medals and decorations, most of which were later donated to the Missouri Historical Society and are on display at the Jefferson Memorial, now part of the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri.
United States government
Medal of Honor (1927)
Distinguished Flying Cross (1927)
Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution (1927)
Congressional Gold Medal (1928)
Other United States
Orteig Prize (1927)
Harmon Trophy (1927)
Hubbard Medal (1927)
Honorary Scout (Boy Scouts of America, 1927)
Silver Buffalo Award (Boy Scouts of America, 1928)
Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy (1949)
Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1953)
Pulitzer Prize (1954)
Non-U.S.…
