Charles Lindbergh

PEOPLE

French war hero Charles Nungesser and his navigator François Coli vanished during their attempt to make the first transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, leaving behind one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.

PEOPLE

Charles Lindbergh was a national hero—but though his aviation accomplishments cemented his celebrity, his legacy remains scandalous.

INSTANT

“How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain,...



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