11-Year-Old Aviator Expected to Reach Paris Today
The 11-year-old pilot who set out last week to become the world’s youngest transatlantic aviator is expected to land at Paris’ LeBourget Airport this morning after several setbacks and two days later than scheduled.
Christopher Lee Marshall is marking Charles Lindbergh’s historic 1927 flight, which began in San Diego, went to St. Louis and on to New York. Lindbergh then became the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic in a flight from New York to Paris that took took 33 1/2 hours.
Christopher, of the Central California coastal community of Oceano, has flown only during the daytime and made landings in Texas, Canada and Greenland on his way to Paris.
He has been at the controls during the entire flying time spread over seven days. His co-pilot, Randy (Duke) Cunningham, 46, is a retired Navy commander.
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