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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.
The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 American aviation biography film directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh.The screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes and Wilder from Lindbergh's 1953 autobiographical account of his historic flight, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954.
Spirit of St. Louis is the second studio album by American singer and actress Ellen Foley, released in March 1981. Foley is backed by the Clash on all songs. The album was recorded right after the Clash's Sandinista! with the same musicians and engineers.
The Spirits of St. Louis were a basketball franchise based in St. Louis that played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) from 1974 to 1976. This was the third and last city of a franchise that had begun as a charter member in 1967 as the Houston Mavericks before a shift to the Carolinas in 1969 to play as the Cougars.
Donald Albert Hall (December 7, 1898 – May 2, 1968) was an American pioneering aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer who is most famous for having designed the Spirit of St. Louis. Hall was also part of the three-person team that discovered that the crack of a bullwhip is a sonic boom.
The Spirit of St. Louis is an autobiographical account by Charles Lindbergh about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, a custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane (Registration: N-X-211).
Sign for Spirit of St. Louis Airport A typical business jet at the airport. Spirit of St. Louis Airport (IATA: SUS, ICAO: KSUS, FAA LID: SUS) is a public airport located 17 miles (27 km) west of the central business district of St. Louis, in St. Louis County, Missouri, in the city of Chesterfield, United States.
The Spirit of St. Louis is the aircraft flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first non-stop solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1927. The Spirit of St. Louis may also refer to: The Spirit of St. Louis, a 1953 book by Lindbergh about the flight; The Spirit of St. Louis, a 1957 film based on the book, starring James Stewart