• Charles Lindbergh stands in front of an aircraft wearing aviator gear.
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    As a young pilot, Charles Lindbergh learned valuable skills as mail pilot and barnstormer. Barnstormers were stunt pilots who earned a living flying from town to town around rural America. After negotiating with a local farmer to use a field as a runway, the pilots gave airplane rides and performed stunts.

  • Charles Lindbergh stands in front of an aircraft wearing aviator gear.

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