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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. [1]
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.
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 .
As of 2001, only four complete Broughams were preserved, [9] one at the San Diego Air & Space Museum, [10] and three others which had been modified to look like the Spirit of St. Louis for the 1957 movie starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. One of the movie Ryans is at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. [11]
The Spirit of St. Louis (film) Steel (1997 film) T. Technisonic Studios; ... Up in the Air (2009 film) W. Wells Fargo (film) What's Love Got to Do with It (1993 film)
Ryan Airline Company was an airline founded by T. Claude Ryan and Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Mahoney at Dutch Flats Airport in San Diego, California, on April 19, 1925.They had earlier established a scheduled service between San Diego and Los Angeles with a fare of $14.50 one-way and $22.50 round-trip.
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.
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