Air Travel 05-20-08

I have posted before about my fondness for my daily dose of history from: http://www.reference.com/thisday/

May 20th is the anniversary of two momentous air travel events.

In 1927 Charles Lindbergh left from Long Island, New York, bound for Paris, France, in his custom build plane the "Spirit of St. Louis". He was the first person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.

Only twelve years later on this date in 1939 Pan American Airlines flew the first regular transatlantic flight from New York to Southhampton, England (making two stops along the way). It is amazing that after only 69 years we have air travel to almost every place on earth and into the stratosphere.

Incidentally, this would have been Jimmy Stewart's 100 birthday.