Dubbed the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane was unusual and its pilot, Charles Lindbergh, according to Richard Crawford writing in the San Diego Union-Tribune, "did not want to be sandwiched between ...

Fonck's plane, a silver biplane with a luxurious cabin, burst into flames before it even left the ground. Fonck survived the crash, but two crew members were killed. In 1926 Charles Lindbergh had ...

On May 20, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh left Long Island's Roosevelt Field in a single-engine plane built by Ryan Airlines. The plane, named the Spirit of St. Louis, would not touch ground again ...

Charles Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis Gurney spent that fall picking up odd jobs around the St. Louis airfield, and doing aircraft repair work Lindbergh referred to him. Lindbergh's mother ...

Charles Lindbergh bought the Bird in September 1930 for his wife to complete her pilot training, and registered it in her name. The aircraft was built by the Brunner-Winkle company of Glendale ...

Amelia Earhart furthered the perception of aviators as courageous adventurers, becoming the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. Her disappearance in 1937 during an ...