From two slots above:
"...about Lindbergh ... his ability to stay awake. 33+ hours for the flight and he didn't sleep a wink the night before takeoff...."
And C.A.L. did this no-sleep drill repeatedly; eg his solo non-stop flight from Bolling Field to Mexico City, of Dec'13th 1927 was over 24 hours. [Reminds me of some early climbers willing to risk altitude-sickness just for the "record" of the first ascent.]
BTW, for those interested in earlier flights of C.A.L. [C.A.M. Route #2], PHOTOGRAPHS from the defunct newspaper, the
Saint Louis Globe-Democrat (a "backer" of the airplane "Spirit") are available on the "web". Almost all those digitized images from the 1920's are mislabeled, and many photos are mirror-images -- makes for mind-bending efforts to puzzle-out the date & place of each image:
St. Louis Globe Democrat Collection Home
or another version of the _Globe-Democrat_ collection:
Missouri Digital Heritage Collections : Browse