The+Importance+of+the+Transatlantic+Flight

Charles A. Lindbergh was the first noted pilot to fly solo, as in with no one else in the plane, across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop. He flew from Long Island, New York to Paris, France in a Ryan monoplane named "The Spirit of St. Louis". He flew 3,600 nautical miles, or 6,667 kilometers, or 4142.682 miles in a grand total of 33 1/2 hours. There had been two noted failures in crossing the Atlantic Ocean by means of air travel, and after the second came Lindbergh. Since Lindbergh was the first man to fly solo and actually accomplish a non-stop flight, he set a record for solo flights across the Atlantic. Here is a video of him landing in Europe after his long flight. []

In accordance to Lindbergh and his love for flight, everyday at noon he would fly his very own Lockheed Interceptor over the city to impress the masses. A little fact about his plane is that a Lockheed "Interceptor" is only a classification of an attack plane, meaning that he could have been flying any number of deadly weapons. In reliance on great amounts of speed and maneuverability, these planes would //intercept// and destroy enemy aircraft, particularly bombers. Since any number of Lockheed aircraft. From what it sounded like, the plane he flew had two engines and in WWII, the only planed that I have knowledge of that had two engines and was a form of the Lockheed Interceptor was the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. This plane would have proved Lindberghs push for the "... development of American aviation..."(54). It would be the primary long-range attack plane of the United States Army Air Force until 1942 with the development of North American Aviation's P-51D Mustang.