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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Most Minnesotans know the name Charles Lindbergh, but they’re probably ... was killed in a plane crash on May 17, 1931. He was 32 years old. Charles “Speed” Holman was ...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the child’s mother and a pilot herself, was pregnant with the couple’s second child. Jon Lindbergh, ...

But even he can’t pinpoint what the plane of the future will look like. “If you look at the airplanes of the Wright brothers or Charles Lindbergh, it was difficult to believe that we would see ...

Tabloids called the headline-making kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. in March 1932 “the crime of the century.” ...