CHARLES LINDBERGH- Heroism, tragedy and betrayal. 

THE PILOT CONSIDERED AN AMERICAN HERO WHO HAD HIS LIFE SHOCKED BY THE KIDNAPPING OF HIS SON AND HIS CLOSE TO AND SYMPATHY FOR GERMANY.
Lindbergh left Nassau County, New York State, on the east coast of the United States, towards Paris, France, on May 20, 1927, landing in the French capital the following day. The plane used by Lindbergh was called "The Spirit of Saint Louis". Lindbergh's flight lasted 33 hours and 31 minutes. Lindbergh's achievement led to him being awarded the "Orteig Prize", worth 25 thousand dollars, on offer since 1919.
His arrival in Paris was triumphant. And the celebration almost ended in tragedy. Warmly received by the Parisians, the pilot was almost suffocated by the crowd that gathered to greet him.
An excerpt from his reception in New York was used in the film The Cameraman (1928).[1]
His grandson, Erik Lindbergh, repeated the trip in a plane similar to the one used by his grandfather Charles, 75 years later, in 2002. Lindbergh was not, however, the first aviator to make a transatlantic flight, a feat that belongs to John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, whose flight was made in 1919; In 1922, the Portuguese Gago Coutinho and Artur Sacadura Cabral made the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic using only astronomical navigation, in what was also the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.

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