Gene Boyer: Charles Lindbergh

Artist: Gene Boyer

Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1977
Image Size: 13.5 by 17.25 inches
Overall Size: 18.5 by 23 inches
Medium: Acrylic on Cold Press Illustration Board

When Charles Lindbergh was born, no one could have predicted that twenty-five years later he would become one of the greatest American heroes of all time. His accomplishment, the first solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris, was the dream of aviators from the moment man first flew. Encouraged by the $25,000 Orteig Prize, it was a challenge which by May 20, 1927, had cost five lives and had attracted organizations with huge aeroplanes and platoons of aviators. Then, a tall, handsome, all-American boy -- actually a stunt flyer turned airmail pilot -- arrived out of nowhere with his homely plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. On the morning of May 20, 1927, he bounced down a muddy Roosevelt Field, Long Island, into an uncertain fate over the Atlantic. Alone, without radio or sextant, and guided only by a compass and a map of the North Atlantic, he captured the hearts and won the prayers of the world. Thirty-three hours after barely clearing telephone wires at Roosevelt Field, he trundled to a stop at Le Bourget Aerodrome in Paris cheered by a hundred thousand Parisians. For people of all countries, Lindbergh's flight was truly a victory of proportion. A deed which reaffirmed mankind's faith in itself. An event which is celebrated by this First Day Cover issued on the precise Fiftieth Anniversary of the beginning of this historic flight at the place where the story began.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover of the 13¢ Trans-Atlantic Flight stamp issued May 20, 1977.

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