[DOC] [TLE] Charles Lindbergh - Wikipedia [PAR] Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902  August 26, 1974), nicknamed 
Slim, Lucky .... A few days later, Lindbergh took his first formal flying lesson in that 
same ... During this time, he also briefly held a job as an airplane mechanic in ..... 
single-pilot flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean in the... [DOC] [TLE] Famous Firsts in Aviation - Infoplease [PAR] With the Marquis d'Arlandes, Piltre de Rozier made the first free flight, ... Henri 
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the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. 
Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. ... During an attempt to make 
a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed... [DOC] [TLE] List of firsts in aviation - Wikipedia [PAR] This is a list of firsts in aviation. Contents. [hide]. 1 The forerunners. 1.1 First 
alleged human flights; 1.2 First recorded balloon flights. 2 Heavier than air; 1853
1947; 3 Heavier than air; 1947present; 4 See also .... First trans-Atlantic flight; 
The lighter-than-air U.S. Navy airship USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) made a nonstop 
delivery... [DOC] [TLE] Jimmy Doolittle Is Best Remembered for Leading a Raid on Japan in ... [PAR] Sep 2, 2008 ... He was the first pilot to fly across the United States in fewer than 24 hours. ... 
Today Shirley Griffith and Frank Oliver tell about a famous World War Two pilot, 
Jimmy Doolittle. ... At one time, he held the record for flying faster than any other 
... Yet larger boys made a mistake if they thought being small also... [DOC] [TLE] Lindbergh's flight - Charles Lindbergh [PAR] Charles Lindbergh's First Solo Flight & First Plane ... Thirty-three and one half-
hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone. ... 
predicted a break in the rain prompting Lindbergh to make his attempt the next 
day. He .... This Procs-verbal was signed by no less than 13 French officials, the 
US... [DOC] [TLE] The Impossible Raid - America in WWII magazine [PAR] He was first to perform an outside loop and first to take off, fly, and land blind, 
using ... During the First World War, Doolittle had been a flight instructor in the 
Signal ... the perfect man to command the mission, but he was also too valuable 
to lose. ... Plus, the B-17s had a round-trip range of less than 1,000 miles, and 
Japan... [DOC] [TLE] Meet Even More Famous Pilots of Aviation's Golden Age - Pilot Planes [PAR] "Pappy Boyington" One of World War II's Most Famous Pilots and Flying Aces in 
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pilot. ... while he was a prisoner of war with the Japanese, and they beat him 
often. .... Chuck Yeager also made great contributions to general aviation through 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Aviation Pioneers -- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A ... [PAR] From the dawn of flight up to the present day, pilots have been a particularly ... It 
also inspired several adventurous individuals to become aviators, as well as 
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aviation ... Corrigan decided that he, too, was going to make his own transatlantic 
flight,... [DOC] [TLE] Charles Lindbergh & the First Solo Transatlantic Flight - Space.com [PAR] Jul 20, 2012 ... Born only a year before the Wright brothers made their first historic flight at Kitty ... 
training at the U.S. Army flying school, where he graduated first in his class. After

Question: The first pilot to fly across the U.S. in less than a day; he also made a famous flight to Japan
Answer: Jimmy Doolittle