 After spending another week or so at the field to "practice" (thereby acquiring five hours of "pilot in command" time), Lindbergh took off from Americus for [[Montgomery, Alabama]], some 140 miles to the west, for his first solo cross-country flight.He went on to spend much of the rest of 1923 engaged in almost nonstop barnstorming under the name of "Daredevil Lindbergh".Unlike the previous year, this time Lindbergh flew in his "own ship" as pilot.