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The Pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh Speaking To Colleagues, 1920s. On 20-21 May 1927 Lindbergh made the first successful solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, flying in a single-engined single-seater monoplane that he named 'Spirit of St Louis'. The flight took a total of 33 1/2 hours to complete. For his achievement Lindbergh won a $25,000 prize put up by a New York hotelier, Raymond Orteig, and worldwide fame. From "Time To Remember - Fast And Far in the Twenties", 1927 (Reel 3); a look at the obsession with speed and travel during the late 1920s.