Wilbur and Orville Wright began experimenting with the idea of flight in 1899, and their first aircraft famously took flight in 1903. “It was the Wrights' genius and vision to see that humans would have to fly their machines, that the problems of flight could not be solved from the ground,” according to the National Park Service.
A little more than twenty years later, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927. According to the New York Times front-page coverage of his historic solo flight from New York to Paris, Lindbergh “ate only one and a half of his five sandwiches” during the flight and also briefly fell asleep.