# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 2)

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Here’s an interesting fact I was recently reminded about.

Charles Lindbergh, when flying the Spirit of St Louis from the U.S. to France to become the first person to fly a solo transatlantic flight, _had no windshield_.

He had a periscope, and windows to his sides, but otherwise his view was just of his instruments.

[![](https://i.ibb.co/fVFY7kQ9/IMG-2014.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/fVFY7kQ9/IMG-2014.jpg)

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