A flight from North America to Europe is often called this kind of trip?

 The transatlantic flight is the name of the flight from U.S.A. to Europe over the Atlantic ocean . The first transatlantic  flight is considered the one made by Charles Lindbergh .

On May 21, 1927, pilot Charles A. Lindbergh lands in Paris, after having completed his own first nonstop transatlantic flight between New York and Paris on a single-engine monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, taking off from New York  33 hours and a half before . Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born in Detroit in 1902and he learned to fly at age of 20 . In 1923, he bought a plane, left from the first world war and made a tour of the United States as a stuntman. In 1924, he enrolled in flight school in the aviation and graduated magna cum laude, achieving the rank of lieutenant. In 1926 he became pilot in aviation mail on the route between St. Louis and Chicago.