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“I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.”

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh, born on February 4, 1902, and died on August 26, 1974, was an American aviator renowned for his historic non-stop solo transatlantic flight in 1927. His flight, which he named 'The Spirit of St. Louis', not only broke records but also significantly advanced the field of aviation, inspiring generations of pilots. more

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