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American aviator Charles Lindbergh became famous after making the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. His father was a congressman from Minnesota from to , and his grandfather had been secretary to the King of Sweden. Lindbergh spent a great deal of time alone while young, with animals and then machines to keep him company.

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Lindbergh became bored with studying; he was more interested in cars and motorcycles at this point. He left Wisconsin to study airplane flying in Lincoln, Nebraska , from to He made his first solo flight in and thereafter made exhibition flights and short trips in the Midwest. He enrolled in the U. Air Service Reserve as a cadet in and graduated the next year.

In he made his first flight as an airmail pilot between Chicago , Illinois , and St. Louis, Missouri. With money put up by several St. Louis businessmen, Lindbergh had a plane called the Spirit of St.