1930: Charles and Anne Morrow
Lindbergh Fly from L.A. to Roosevelt Field

After his famous transatlantic flight from Long Island to Paris in 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh met and married Anne Morrow, the daughter of the United States ambassador to Mexico. He also taught her how to fly. On April 20, 1930, the Lindberghs set a transcontinental speed record, flying from Los Angeles to Roosevelt Field in a Lockheed Sirius in 14 hours and 45 minutes, with only one refueling stop. Anne, who was seven months pregnant, sat in the rear seat, navigating, operating the radio, and supplying information about weather and landing conditions. That year, the Lindberghs made two other historic flights, flying from Maine to Tokyo in August and from Miami to the Panama Canal Zone in November, inaugurating Pan American Airways’ Clipper Ship service in the new Sikorsky S-40 Flying Boat, Southern Clipper. The couple is shown here at Los Angeles’ Grand Central Airport in 1930.