he believed...he conquered...

To think of being in New York one day and Paris the very next......! 'impossible' thought the common man living in the early 20th century...but 'why not' thought Charles Lindberg, a pilot who lived in the early twenties of that century and he set out from New York, one sunny day, towards Paris , with his plane 'The Spirit Of St. Louis',over the Atlantic......an adventurer......truly ! such was his will to do the impossible ! He was not the common man who would succumb to the human fears of the unknown and the perils of the journey.
To think of flying over the Atlantic all alone with only the intimidating expanse of water greeting the eyes sends a shiver down my spine...but ,this was what he did . Gliding through the deadly regions in air under tremendous physical strain ,Charles reached Paris after the seemingly unending thirty four hours. How difficult it had been to fly in the engulfing darkness of night under circumstances ill conducive to such feats in an age in its nascent stages of technological advancement..!
Yes ! Charles Lindberg was the first man in the history of human civilisation to be in New York on one day and in Paris the very next... ! Charles Lindberg --the man who believed he could change the world and revolutionise human thought - proved how man could take to air to overcome distance erstwhile unimaginable .It is because of people like him that we live in the dreams of our yesterday...