As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot Lindbergh emerged from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight on May 20-21 1927 made from the Roosevelt Field in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris France a distance of nearly 3600 statute miles in the single-seat single-engine Spirit of St. Louis. As a result of this flight Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. The record setting flight took 33 hours and 30 minutes. The following recording is from 1927.