Charles A. Lindbergh

In his lifetime, Charles A. Lindbergh achieved many great accomplishments, including his solo non-stop flight between New York and Paris. However, he also worked for the U. S. Government in the military and as a consultant. He also spent time working for Pan Am and served as a technical adviser. He was a man of firm convictions in possession of a teleological worldview that encompassed a vision of technology and humanity. He believed science and nature were aspects of the physical and the spiritual environment. Although he would become disenchanted with technology at one stage in his life, he was able to resolve his internal struggle and formulate a philosophy that encompassed technology and humanity as complimentary forces. Lindbergh was also perceived by many as anti-Semitic, and, due to his admiration of the German air force, his decoration granted by Adolph Hitler, and his pacifist views he found himself the enemy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, Europe and America viewed Lindbergh as a hero and the struggles he encountered to find a relationship between technology and humanity were typical to his era, an era when technology was rapidly developing as it is in our own era, “Throughout his life, Lindbergh’s value structure, interests, and activities shifted and moved between a conflict between instinct and intellect. Bo

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er of those who wanted to develop new technologies, like rocket flight. Yet, his first love was aviation and from a young age he seemed conscious that a life in the skies was one for which he was destined, “Even while Lindbergh was a child he showed incredible mechanical ability. At the age of 18 he entered the University of Wisconsin to study engineering. However, he always seemed to be more interested in the young and exciting field of aviation. Two years later he left school and became a barnstormer, a pilot who performed daredevil stunts at fairs” (Charles Augustus 1). While Lindbergh’s work for the military during the war was kept low profile because of his concerns over publicity, Lindbergh flew fifty combat missions and often risked his life in order to help advance aviation for the military. He was so successful in his efforts while on these missions that he was commissioned by President Eisenhower as Brigadier General in the U. S. Air Force Reserve in the 1950s. He had done much to deserve the commission. Not only had he enabled a greater level of efficiency and range for U. S. fighting planes, but his efforts actually helped to preserve many American lives and shortened the duration of the war. General Kenney,
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