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.

Lindbergh took off in his plane, “The Spirit of St. Louis,” barely clearing the trees surrounding Roosevelt Field in New York ...

We’ve all heard of the legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh. Alone in his aircraft, The Spirit of St. Louis, the famed pilot became the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...