4:22pm - The Spirit of St. Louis touches down at the Le Bourget Aerodrome, Paris, France. Local time: 10:22pm. Total flight time: 30 hrs, 30 min. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours.

Charles A. Levine ... decided he would 'rather have extra gasoline than an extra man.'" When Lindbergh landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, just 33 and a half hours later. He had 85 gallons left.

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

Although Charles Lindbergh never ran for president ... to whoever could complete the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris. The award came with $25,000 — the equivalent to about $370,000 ...

By contrast, all Americans knew who Charles Lindbergh was — and they loved him. His trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris was an extraordinary feat of personal courage during the depths of the ...

Two days before Lindbergh's scheduled May 10, 1927 departure from San Diego, news broke that Frenchmen Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli had taken off from Paris bound for New York. It appeared ...