Working on blog number 7! I'm doing Charles A. Lindbergh!
Charles A. Lindbergh is most known for his time avitating, was also an author, inventor, explorer, and social actvist. Charles, the only child of Charles August Lindbergh and Evangeline Lodge Land, was born on February 4th, 1902 in Detriot, Michigan. When Charles was a 7 years old, his parents split. When he was atteding school, he didn't attend one for more than a year. He jumped from school to school from Washington D.C. to California. He was then enrolled at the Universtity of Washington- Madison, but dropped out the middle of his sophmore year. He then began flight traning in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 20.
Since Charles was little, he always had a thing for transportation and how they worked but that really began when he was an engineering student in college. College is where his love for flying rose. A month after quitting college, Lindbergh flew for the first time after enrolling in Nebraska Aircraft Corporation.
Since Charles A. Lindbergh couldn't afford to post a bond to fly alone, his first time flying solo came more than a year later. When he decided the day had come for him to fly solo, he hadn't had a flying lesson for several months but he was fearless. His love for flying kept growing and he decided to buy a Curtis JN-4 Jenny Biplane. Charles didn't have a perfect run when he was on his way of becoming a great flyer. He had a couple accidents and often broke off the prop of his Jenny when landing.
In 1924 at age 20, Lindbergh enlisted in the army so he could trained as an Army Air Service Reserve piolet and when he graduated ,was called a very cautious piolet.
When a New York hotel owner offered a $25,000 prize for the first person to fly nonstop from New York to Paris and no one had yet succeded, Charles decided it was his chance. He persuaded a couple businessmen to help finance the trip since he would need a good plane. On May 20th, 1927 he took off at 7:52 am in New York and the next day he landed with a lot of cheering in Paris at 10: 21 pm.
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