Brother Charles Lindbergh's first flight across the Atlantic in 1927 made him world famous. Lesser known, however is the flight of Brothers Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger just a few weeks later. Together, they completed the first trans-Pacific flight from California to Hawaii in what is seen as a greater navigational feat. Although Lindbergh garnered all the notoriety (and, along with it, tragedy) Maitland, a member of Kenwood Lodge 303 in Milwaukee, went on to a successful military and aeronautics career and eventually became an Episcopal minister. Hegenberger, a Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner, was an attorney who went on to a political career serving as Mayor of Oklahoma City from 1939-1947.
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