Charles Lindbergh, as modest as a cadet flyer before his solo flight, began today the task of buying a coat upon which to wear the cross of the Legion of Honor. He arrived in Paris with none other ...

The Spirit of St. Louis is a biographical film about Charles Lindbergh which stars James Stewart and Billy Wilder in their ...

In 1927, the 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from Detroit rose to fame, literally, when he flew the first nonstop solo trans-Atlantic flight. Lindbergh was trying to win the Orteig Prize, which was ...

American aviation and military officer Charles Lindbergh made history on May 20, 1927, when he departed for his first solo flight as a pilot across the Atlantic. Less than five years later ...

When Charles Lindbergh returned to the United States after making his historic solo flight from New York to Paris, he was both a hero and the biggest celebrity in the world. In the weeks and ...

The longest flight of the day lasted 59 seconds and covered 852 feet. Charles A. Lindbergh, flying the "Spirit of St. Louis," becomes the first aviator to make a solo, non-stop, transatlantic flight.

David Rooney's The Big Hop brings to life the daring 1919 race to complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight-an ...

Case in point? He's just announced a plan to trace the path Charles Lindbergh took during his historic flight from New York to Paris in an electric airplane. Not just any electric airplane though.

Hawaii Department of Transportation photo To put the City of Oakland fight into historical context, it came only two months after Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic in the ...

Charles Lindbergh, as modest as a cadet flyer before his solo flight, began today the task of buying a coat upon which to wear the cross of the Legion of Honor. He arrived in Paris with none other ...