Design a plane... build
it and then fly it alone non-stop for 3610 miles through storms
and fog across a violent ocean with no chance for survival
if the engine fails. This flight became the single biggest
public adulation ever bestowed on an individual.
EVERY MINUTE OF HIS FLIGHT IS BREATHTAKING... “Thirty-five
hundred miles to Paris; nearly fifty hours of fuel in my
tanks. New England, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, the Atlantic
Ocean---I'l pass above them---and then Ireland, England and
France! The world turning below: when it turns to PARIS,
I shall land.”