On 21 May 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh landed his Ryan single-engine monoplane, "Spirit of St. Louis", on the ground at Aérodrome de Le Bourget in Paris, France, completing the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He had begun his journey 33 hours, 30 minutes and 29.8 seconds before — lifting his aircraft from the muddy runway of Roosevelt Airfield in Garden City, New York, at 7:52 AM local time on on 20 May. He was greeted by a crowd of more than 150,000 people who stormed the field, dragged Lindbergh out of the cockpit, and carried him around on their shoulders, shouting “Vive!” His life would never be the same.
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