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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.
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
After flying over the Chicago skies countless times, the Blue Angels are now the subject of a new documentary – and the film’s executive producer knows a thing or two about life in a cockpit.
Superlatives swirl around Bruce Franks Jr., the focus of the Oscar-nominated short documentary St. Louis Superman. “I don't know if I've ever met a human being quite as remarkable as Bruce, who ...
The story of the colorful figures who made up the American Basketball Association's Spirits of St. Louis, and how Spirits owners Ozzie and Daniel Silna, with their team about to be left out in the ABA's merger with the NBA, managed to negotiate a deal that allowed the brothers' involvement in pro basketball to continue in a most unusual fashion.
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 .
Glen Powell, Bad Robot and Imax have released a theatrical trailer in support of The Blue Angels Foundation, a non-profit created by former Blue Angels pilots that funds critical services for ...