Essay On Charles Lindbergh

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Do you know who was the first person ever to fly over an ocean? Charles Lindbergh was the only person daring enough to try to take the flight over the Atlantic Ocean. Charles Lindbergh had a huge effect on the world of flying. The places he went and things he did while flying set many expectations.

Charles Lindbergh was not very happy after he flew across the Atlantic Ocean. He was in fact embarrassed about it. Many young girls from France attempted to lunge through the crowds to kiss him, and he “was scared to death.” Charles Lindbergh also always had trouble with the press. They would always put out false information about him. When the New York Times came out with their account of his famous flight he was “shocked and disappointed” when he saw that they turned his description into a first person article that was "neither accurate nor in accord with my character and viewpoint.” The press got worse and worse, and Lindbergh became a victim of it. Lindbergh’s visits to Nazi Germany before WWII aroused some suspicion, especially when he didn’t speak out about some of their actions. Nazi Germany’s leader at the time Herman Goring pinning a medal to didn’t help much either. Soon Walter Winchell was changing the words of Joseph P. Kennedy to show that Lindbergh’s on German aviation had been a final factor in Neville Chamberlain's horrible appeasement policy at Munich. Another rumor about Lindbergh said that “Germans had duped Lindbergh by shuttling the same planes around to different airfields to give a false impression of their superiority.” In truth Charles Lindbergh had given very accurate information to the US government that we could not have gotten from any other source. The medal given to Lindbergh by the Nazi’s had come as a...

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...st practical use of the airplane, mail was flown in war-era planes by young pilots, including Lindbergh. This thin, tall airmail pilot caught the world’s attention and awakened his countryman to the airplanes true potential, less then 24 years after the Wright brother’s first flight. His famous flight across the Atlantic can be credited with the birth of commercial aviation in the US. Although modest attempts had been made to take passengers along with the mail, the range of aircraft that could carry both was limited, and flying at night was too risky. The Boeing B-40, for example, one of the first airliners, was only able to carry two passengers, and the pilot sat in an open cockpit. The military and a small segment of the civilian population really started to show the way. Navy and Army airmen called attention to aviation with feats or daring, and record setting.

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