Charles Lindbergh was good enough- and lucky enough- to be the first person to fly New York to Paris and became the most famous man in the world when he won the Orteig Prize. Six other people weren't quite good or lucky enough, and died pursuing the Ortieg Prize. If you look it up on Wikipedia you can find their names, but I can only name one of them off the top of my head (Charles Nungasser was a famous French WWI ace), and I suspect that one makes me better than 99% of the people alive today at remembering these men.

Everyone would like to be Charles Lindbergh, but far more common to be Charles Clavier or Noel Davis, failing, dying, and forgotten.