Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit,. He attended the University of Wisconsin for two years but left to attend a flying school in Lincoln, Nebraska. He began flying in 1922, and four years later he flew a mail plane between St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago. He decided to compete for a prize of $25,000 offered in 1919 by Raymond B. Orteig of New York City for the first nonstop transatlantic solo flight between New York City and Paris. In his single-engine airplane, Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh left Roosevelt Field at 7:52 AM on May 20, 1927. …
