A 25-year-old airmail pilot flew solo across the Atlantic to win a $25,000 prize

On 20–21 May 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis nonstop from New York to Paris in about 33.5 hours, alone and without radar, autopilot or a forward-facing window. He won the Orteig Prize for the first nonstop transatlantic flight between the two cities and came home to the largest ticker-tape parade New York had ever held.

— Wikipedia contributors, Charles Lindbergh — 20–21 May 1927