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 Charles Lindbergh transatlantic flight

As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot Charles Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20-21, 1927, made from Roosevelt Field located in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 5,800 km, in the single-seat, single-engine purpose built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis.
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