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Question: What was the significance of Charles Lindbergh's flight to 1920s America!?
I'm looking for a general idea, anything that was of any importance!. How did it really impact America, socially, economically, etc!.!.!.

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A successful flight across Atlantic Ocean was perhaps inevitable BUT The fact that a 'scrappy' 'kid' did it solo captured the hearts of his fellow Americans!. Big names backed by big business or foreign governments were vying for the prize but here was this 'nobody' backed by businessmen from the Midwest and he beat them all!. By himself!. Without the aid of crystal meth Lindberg stayed awake for more than a day piloting a plane that by all rights ought not to have strayed more than twenty miles from land!.
And America desperately wanted a 'hero!.' Especially in Aviation!. After all it was a pair of brothers from the Midwest who had first flown an airplane and yet Europeans had taken the lead in aviation especially during 'the Great War!.' British and French aviators were in the news eclipsing Americans!.
Lindbergs flight spurred others to invest in aviation and so economically it can be said that American aviation owes a great debt to 'Lindy!.' After his flight it became fashionable for big companies to pony up funds for fliers and in ways big and small money flowed in to fuel the leaps in aviation that were the hallmark of the 1930s!.

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