Charles Lindbergh Activist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Feb 4, 1902
- Died: Aug 26, 1974
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.
As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot, Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight on May 20 - 21, 1927, made from the Roosevelt Field in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles, in the single-seat, single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. As a result of this flight, Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. Lindbergh, a U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh used his fame to promote the development of both commercial aviation and Air Mail services in the United States and the Americas. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime of the Century". It was described by journalist H.L.
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
science
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
God
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
freedom
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
nature
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
dreams & the future
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
being alone, courage & faith