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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.
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. [1]
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 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
The book covers a period of time between September 1926 and May 1927, and is divided into two sections: The Craft and New York to Paris.In the first section, The Craft (pp. 3–178), Lindbergh describes the latter days of his career as an airmail pilot and presents his account of conceiving, planning, and executing the building of the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft.
He hired Seth Raynor to do the engineering on the course, making the St. Louis course one of the few Macdonald-Raynor designs. Macdonald, who was also among the founders of the United States Golf Association, was also the first champion of the United States Golf Association's Amateur Championship. The St. Louis course would be the furthest west ...
The Greater St. Louis Golf Classic was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour in 1972 and 1973. It was played at the Norwood Hills Country Club in Normandy, Missouri.. In 1972, Lee Trevino made birdie on the first two holes Sunday to take over the lead from future PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beman and eventually beat him by one shot.
The St. Louis Golf Classic was a golf tournament on the Nike Tour. It ran from 1994 to 1998. From 1994 to 1996 it was played at Lake Forest Golf & Country Club in Lake St. Louis, Missouri. In 1997 and 1998 it was played at Missouri Bluffs Golf Course in St. Charles. In 1998 the winner earned $40,500.