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- On May 20–21, 1927, the Spirit of Saint Louis became the first plane to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. This video shows the plane and its pilot, Charles Lindbergh.
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The Spirit of St. Louis (formally the Ryan NYP, registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that Charles Lindbergh flew on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize.
Spirit of St. Louis, airplane in which Charles Lindbergh made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, May 20–21, 1927. His flight was sponsored by a group of businessmen in St. Louis, Missouri.
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One fine afternoon in the spring of 1927, a relatively unknown airmail pilot by the name of Charles Lindbergh walked into a meeting room in St. Louis, Missouri. Seated around the table were nine of the city’s most prominent businessmen, each more influential than the last.
In September 1926, a shy 24-year-old airmail pilot from Minnesota named Charles Lindbergh fought the boredom of his St. Louis-to-Chicago run by obsessing on a challenge issued seven years...
May 20, 2019 · On May 20, 1927, Lindbergh took flight aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, a highly modified Ryan M-2 aircraft, in an attempt to become the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. “Lucky Lindy” as he came to be known, charted a course from New York to Paris, and despite ice, fog, and sleep deprivation, he achieved what many had failed to ...
Charles Lindbergh set a record flying from San Diego to New York City, with a stop in St. Louis, in 21 hours and 40 minutes. The Spirit of St. Louis returned to the U.S. from France aboard the USS Memphis and was exhibited on a barge to protect it from souvenir hunters.
Flying east alone into the coming night, Lindbergh arrived at Lambert Field in St. Louis the following morning, May 11, 1927, establishing a non-stop speed record of 1,500 miles in 14 hours and 25 minutes.
