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.

Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia. Born two years after Lindbergh’s 1927 New York-to-Paris solo flight, King, as a child, became fascinated by Lindbergh. “Here was a young man who changed ...

In September 1926, a shy 24-year-old airmail pilot from Minnesota named Charles Lindbergh ... fly between New York and Paris, in either direction, in a single flight. Lindbergh was not the first ...

Dubbed the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane was unusual and its pilot, Charles ... Lindbergh recorded: "This company is a fit partner, they're as anxious to build a plane that will fly to Paris ...

Determined to become a first-rate pilot, Charles ... landing fields. Weather conditions could be confounding, sometimes changing drastically every 50 or so miles. Chief Pilot Lindbergh performed ...