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[–] SilverAirplane 0 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago 

In 1927 at age 25, Charles Lindbergh flew a plane of his own design, solo, from New York, across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris

A year later, Amelia Earhart, was flown as a passenger in someone else's plane across the Atlantic ocean. When she returned, she was "greeted with a ticker-tape parade along the Canyon of Heroes in Manhattan, followed by a reception with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.". For this (non)achievement, she was heralded as a "Hero." But what did she actually do? Earhart was just a passenger on the plane being flown by two men: Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. As Earhart herself later admitted, “Stultz did all the flying... I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes.”

In 1932, five years after Lindbergh's historic flight, and after tremendous progress in aviation technology, Earhart flew someone else's plane solo across the Atlantic. She intended to follow Lindbergh's route but she couldn't make it that far, and landed in Ireland, well short of her intended destination in Paris.

In Scott Berg's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Lindberg describes Earheart as a nice person but, not a very good pilot.

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[–] Empire_of_the_mind 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

Lindbergh is a true fucking legend. Look into him for a real eye-opener.

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[–] DozensOfDindus 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Fucking tragic about his son

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[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Truth. He said and did much in WWII, in both theaters....

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[–] BentAxel 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

He was an odd person much like Bill Gates He wasn't the first to cross the Atlantic, he just chose the greatest span. Lindberghs flight came 8 years later.

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[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The Spirit of St Louis itself has an account, and speaks to us!