Charles Lindbergh as a Stunt Pilot
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Charles Lindbergh learned valuable skills as a barnstormer, using farmers' fields to give airplane rides and perform stunts, and airmail pilot.
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As a young pilot, Charles Lindbergh learned valuable skills as mail pilot and barnstormer. Barnstormers were stunt pilots who earned a living flying from town to town around rural America. After negotiating with a local farmer to use a field as a runway, the pilots gave airplane rides and performed stunts.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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SI-78-12207
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1927
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