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1. The flight: Charles Lindbergh's daring and immortal 1927 transatlantic crossing

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"On the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane ... and prepared to take off from a small airfield on Long Island, New York. Despite his inexperience ... he was determined to win the $25,000 Orteig Prize promised since 1919 to the first pilot to fly nonstop between New York and Paris ... Ahead of him lay a 3,600-mile solo journey across the vast north Atlantic...