A little know fact.Charles Levine who was born in North Adams was also set to fly the Atlantic at the same time as Lindberg as a passenger in a Bellanca Monoplane flown by Clarence D. Chamberlin.Levine was a millionare bussiness man who was born at the rear of 84 Furnace Street in North Adams.His place was as a passenger because he was not at that time a pilot.On June 4th same year they took off from the same airfield as Lindberg and attempted to fly to Berlin.On june 6 they landed 100 miles short of Berlin in the town of Eisleben Germany.Had Levine's airplane not been tied up in a law suit that prevented him from flying they may have been the first to fly solo across the atlantic. Granted that Lindberg was alone but Levine was a passenger and not a pilot. He later went on to become a pilot and in the 1920's branched out from his scrap metal business and manufactured airplanes until he lost his shirt in the 1929 stock market crash.