Calle del Aviador Lindbergh

The name pays tribute to Charles Augustus Lindbergh, born in 1902 in the United States, who on 20 May 1927 took off from New York aboard the monoplane Spirit of St. Louis and, some thirty-three and a half hours later, landed near Paris. He had crossed the Atlantic alone, non-stop and without radio, the fuel tank in front of the cockpit blocking his view ahead. He flew nearly six thousand kilometres guided by his instruments, and the feat made him overnight one of the most celebrated figures of the day. This street belongs to the El Viso colony, the rationalist residential development that Rafael Bergamín built in the 1930s on what were then the northern outskirts of Madrid. The dedication of the Calle del Aviador Lindbergh reflects the international fame the pilot reached a few years before its layout. Lindbergh’s life would later hold darker chapters, but the Madrid plaque fixes the moment of the transatlantic flight.