Pioneering Moments

The Route of Lindbergh’s Transatlantic Flight

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Charles Lindbergh flew a Great Circle route along the curvature of the earth rather than flying directly east over the Atlantic Ocean.

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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

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NASM 9A06771
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