"GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL *
From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a
masterful account of Lindbergh's death-defying nonstop
transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. Louis On the rainy morning of
May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A.
Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St.
Louis, and prepared to take off from a small airfield on Long
Island, New York. Despite his inexperience-the twenty-five-year-old
Lindbergh had never before flown over open water-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, a terrifying
adventure that had already claimed six men's lives. Ahead of him
lay a 3,600-mile solo journey across the vast north Atlantic and
into the unknown; his survival rested on his skill, courage, and an
unassuming little aircraft with no front window. Only 500 people
showed up to see him off. Thirty-three and a half hours later, a
crowd of more than 100,000 mobbed Spirit as the audacious young
American touched down in Paris, having acheived the seemingly
impossible. Overnight, as he navigated by the stars through storms
across the featureless ocean, news of his attempt had circled the
globe, making him an international celebrity by the time he reached
Europe. He returned to the United States a national hero, feted
with ticker-tape parades that drew millions, bestowed every
possible award from the Medal of Honor to Time's "Man of the Year"
(the first to be so named), commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp
within months, and celebrated as the embodiment of the twentieth
century and America's place in it. Acclaimed aviation historian Dan
Hampton's The Flight is a long-overdue, flyer's-eye narrative of
Lindbergh's legendary journey. A decorated fighter pilot who flew
more than 150 combat missions in an F-16 and made numerous
transatlantic crossings, Hampton draws on his unique perspective to
bring alive the danger, uncertainty, and heroic accomplishment of
Lindbergh's crossing. Hampton's deeply researched telling also
incorporates a trove of primary sources, including Lindbergh's own
personal diary and writings, as well as family letters and untapped
aviation archives that fill out this legendary story as never
before.
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