Wed, Jun 16, 2010
Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
is a commercial pilot and certified flight instructor, an artist
and a speaker. He serves on a number of Non-Profit boards including
the Lindbergh Foundation, The XPRIZE Foundation and the Aviation
High School in Seattle.
Erik serves as a Trustee and Vice President of the X PRIZE
Foundation, a non-profit organization that stimulates the creation
of a new generation of launch vehicles designed to carry passengers
into space. The X PRIZE is fashioned after the Orteig Prize, the
aviation incentive prize won by Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic
flight in 1927, which created the now $250 billion aviation
industry.
A graduate of Emery Aviation College where he received his
Aeronautical Science degree, Erik retraced his grandfather’s
solo flight from New York to Paris in 2002 in a Lancair Certified
airplane, which later became Columba. This epic personal journey
documented by the History Channel, raised over one million dollars
for three charities, garnered half a billion media impressions for
the XPRIZE Foundation and prompted a call from the President of the
United States for inspiring the country after the tragedy of
September 11th.
Erik also suffers from rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a progressive
autoimmune disease. RA crippled Erik for 15 years and only recently
has he been active again. With the help of a breakthrough biotech
drug, Enbrel, Erik has his life back and is in pursuit of his
dreams. Using his experience with RA, he now serves as a
spokesperson for the Arthritis Foundation, working to educate
others about RA.
His most recent endeavour is LEAP, The Lindbergh Electric
Airplane Prize. The program is a suite of new technology awards
designed to stimulate meaningful advances in the fledgling electric
aircraft industry.
LEAP will bring electric flight to more people and serves as a
vehicle for creating a powerful project-based curriculum that will
address the need for effective science, technology, engineering and
math education.
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