Charles Augustus LINDBERGH
1927 - May 20–21 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, carried out from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.

PROUD AND HAPPY MOTHER JUST KNEW HE COULD DO IT
DETROIT, Mich., May 21. (AP) - "That's all that matters." In these words, Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, mother of Captain Charles Lindbergh, expressed her relief when informed that her intrepid son had arrived safely at Le Bourget flying field, France, after an epochal flight from New York.

Mrs. Lindbergh, who had been silently waiting since the take-off from New York yesterday morning, for the word of her son's safe arrival, allowed herself a few tears of joy, and then said:

"I am deeply thankful for his safety and appreciative of the true sympathy expressed by so many people."

Asked whether she had been confident of his success, she countered with:

"How could anyone be confident?" Then she added: "I knew if it were possible for any pilot, given a good machine, to make the flight, that he would."

Times Signal
Zanesville, Ohio
May 22, 1927

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Charles Augustus LINDBERGH1927 - May 20–21 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, carried out from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.

Charles Augustus LINDBERGH
1927 - May 20–21 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, carried out from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.