Their chief pilot on the "St. Louis to Chicago" airmail run was a lanky young man named Charles Lindbergh.
For a while, the 475th included among its personnel the famous pilot Charles Lindbergh.
Many, such as the Ryan model flown across the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, were produced as single copies or in small quantity.
In 1927 Lambert was one of the St. Louis committee of backers to Charles Lindbergh's purchasing of his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis for his epoch making transatlantic solo trip to Paris.
Pre-WWII he interviewed a number of big names in aviation, including Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, Howard Hughes and Billy Mitchell.
With the advent of closed-cockpit airplanes, hats became less necessary (note that Charles Lindbergh still wore one when he crossed the Atlantic in 1927, though his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane had a closed cockpit).
He sought and received permission to photograph such notables as Charles Lindbergh and Calvin Coolidge.
"Long-Distance Vision" is about the experiences and literary works of several early aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and Beryl Markham.
Noted world-famous guests to Captiva include Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh (who regularly landed his plane on the beach in front of 'Tween Waters Inn), Anne Morrow Lindbergh and J.N. "Ding" Darling.
Landmarks around the county include Lake Chicot, North America's largest oxbow lake and Arkansas's largest natural lake; the site of Charles Lindbergh's first night-time flight; and the legendary burial site of Hernando De Soto, near Lake Village.
She also frequently meets historic characters, especially aviation pioneers such as Charles Lindbergh, and Kateri Tekakwitha.
At the age of four, he took a short flight with Charles Lindbergh, making him the youngest person to have flown with the aviation pioneer at that time.
On May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, France after a successful non-stop flight from the United States in the single-engined Spirit of St. Louis.
Charles Lindbergh, who was a technical adviser to Pan Am, surveyed some of the early air routes.
East Amwell was the location of the estate owned by Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Means duped her into giving him $100,000, to be used to secure the release of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh.
After Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic from West to East in May 1927, the idea of flying in the opposite direction, which is more difficult because of the prevailing winds, became more and more popular.
Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez (December 9, 1905 – July 13, 1928) was a noted Mexican aviator and national hero, nicknamed the "Lindbergh of Mexico".
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In the summer of 1928, he became a national hero when he was selected to undertake a goodwill flight from Mexico City to New York City in response to the previous year's flight from New York City to Mexico City undertaken by Charles Lindbergh.
Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Evere airfield after his historic 1927 transatlantic flight to Paris.
Written after Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, the plot concerned a permanent air station in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
When the Prince was a school boy he was taken for a biplane ride by Moye Stephens, pilot of The Flying Carpet and Richard Halliburton, traveller-adventurist, during their round-the-world flight, shortly after Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.
The reliefs of famous seafarers and airmen include Christopher Columbus, Count Zeppelin and Charles Lindbergh.
Haas baking sells a widely distributed, square and packaged version in a box that depicts a colorful, if anachronistic scene of aviator Charles Lindbergh's plane the Spirit of St. Louis flying past downtown St. Louis, the Gateway Arch and the modern cityscape in clouds.
Hopewell Valley is also the site of the notorious kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh infant in 1932.
The case received international attention and was considered "the crime of the century" because the victim's father was famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Over his career he also was a public relations advisor to the following: George Westinghouse, Charles Lindbergh, John W. Davis, Otto Kahn and Walter Chrysler.
On 23 July 1999, CFB Cold Lake (Alberta) Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment named its new facility, the "Żurakowski Building", and in September 2000, he became an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test pilots, joining the ranks of Charles Lindbergh, Neil Armstrong, and Igor Sikorsky, among numerous other luminaries.
In 1978 Griffin Bell, an Americus native, presented a memorial plaque to Souther Field Airport to commemorate Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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One of the surplus aircraft buyers was none other than Charles Lindbergh.
It is most likely both a tribute to Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis and an acknowledgement of the iconic status the Gherkin has gained as a symbol that represents the city of London.
Viguié's international fame continued to grow, with his documentaries about Charles Lindbergh's 1928 visit to Puerto Rico, and the devastation caused that same year by "Hurricane San Felipe Segundo" (known in the U.S. as "Okeechobee Hurricane").
She wrote Anne Morrow Lindbergh: First Lady of the Air, a 2006 biography of Charles Lindbergh’s wife, emphasizing the subject's own distinguished aeronautical career.
Charles Lindbergh made his first ever nighttime flight over Lake Chicot and Lake Village in April 1923.
Also, Charles Lindbergh made his first nighttime flight over Lake Chicot and Lake Village in April 1923.
Lindbergh Boulevard named after the aviator, Charles Lindbergh, is a section of U.S. Route 61 and U.S. Route 67 that extends through Missouri.
In 1944, Wood also had the distinction of sending off to war a 42-year-old pilot named Charles Lindbergh.
The site of The Mall at the Source was originally Roosevelt Field airport, with Charles Lindbergh taking off on his epic trans-Atlantic flight near the site of the mall's parking garage.
Interest in aviation was still strong after Charles Lindbergh's celebrated 1927 solo flight from New York to Paris.
Shelters and Picnic Tables: The park features two main shelters with water, electricity barbecue pits and restrooms, McDonnell Shelter named after James S. McDonnell and Lindbergh Shelter named after Charles Lindbergh.
Charles Lindbergh - First person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Lived in Melrose, MN; and some of his childhood toys are in the Melrose Museum; and his grandparents are buried in a cemetery in Melrose.
Among the many guests was famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, who often flew his seaplane into the harbor to dock at the Marina.
In 1927, he co-authored with Dale Van Every the best-selling book Charles Lindbergh -- His Life.
The onset of the Great Depression, however, and continued pressure from Glover and other Trippe connections including Charles Lindbergh, eventually induced NYRBA's backers to pull out after some management missteps that O'Neill, far from the New York headquarters, had to spend time fixing.
The events include the nonstop transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh; the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; the amazing season played by Babe Ruth and the rest of the 1927 New York Yankees; the transition from the Ford Model T to the new Model A; the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti; and the advent of the talking-picture era with the release of The Jazz Singer.
One of the best attended presentations was when Charles Lindbergh spoke on the future of aviation on October 5, 1927 as part of the "Lindbergh Tour".
Donald Edward Keyhoe (June 20, 1897 – November 29, 1988) was an American Marine Corps naval aviator, writer of many aviation articles and stories in a variety of leading publications, and manager of the promotional tours of aviation pioneers, especially of Charles Lindbergh.
Notably, Charles Lindbergh served on PANAMIN's board of directors and visited many of the Philippines' indigenous peoples with Elizalde.
It is famous as the landing site for Charles Lindbergh's historic solo transatlantic crossing in 1927 and as the departure point two weeks earlier for the French biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc), which took off in its own attempt at a transatlantic flight but then mysteriously disappeared somewhere over the Atlantic (or possibly the American state of Maine).
Soon after Charles Lindbergh's famous solo transatlantic flight in 1927, a craze for all things aeronautical swept over America.
It was built in 1914 and became famous after racing an aircraft to New York City carrying newsreels of Charles Lindbergh's return to the United States after his transatlantic flight in 1927.
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After returning from Europe and his transatlantic flight on June 11, 1927, Charles Lindbergh was promoted to colonel and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by President Calvin Coolidge.
Celebrated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh returned to the United States on June 11, 1927, after his successful solo transatlantic flight from New York City to Paris; he was greeted by President Calvin Coolidge at Washington, DC and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
The last significant historic event in Red Lake Falls occurred on August 27, 1927, when the famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh and his wife, landed at the nearby airport during a barnstorming trip through the Upper Midwest and were taken on automobile rides to Huot and Crookston.
After completing the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927, Charles Lindbergh made a stop in Renner on August 27, 1927.
He holds 14 international aviation records including Lindbergh's record for time between New York to Paris in two different categories.
Despite this they had covered a distance of 3,420 mi (5,506 km), which was sufficient to set a new world distance record, but which was beaten in turn within a few hours by Charles Lindbergh's solo Atlantic flight between New York and Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis, covering 3,590 mi (5,780 km).
In 1930, she beat Charles Lindbergh's record time for a cross-country flight, completing the trip in 13 hours, 21 minutes.
T.C. Ryan, previously best known for building Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic Spirit of St. Louis, actually had no part in building the famous plane.
Some of their plane building was done behind the name Ryan Aeronautical Company, which under Mahoney built the NYP monoplane for Charles Lindbergh, but this was not the business which later became Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical.
While testing the Spirit of St. Louis airplane in San Diego, Charles Lindbergh used the resources at the San Diego Public Library to plot the course for his historic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh performed stunts in his famous plane the Spirit of St. Louis.
A contemporary of Charles Lindbergh, Levanevsky was celebrated as a hero of the new age of aviation.
Charles Lindbergh is known to have landed in fields just outside of Sorento while preparing for his solo transatlantic flight.
The Flight across the Ocean (Der Ozeanflug) is a Lehrstück by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, inspired by We, Charles Lindbergh's 1927 account of his transatlantic flight.
In it, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Keys enlisted the help of Charles Lindbergh to design a transcontinental network to get government airmail contracts.
Lindbergh, named for aviator Charles Lindbergh, continues north through Frontenac, Ladue, Creve Coeur, Maryland Heights, Bridgeton, Hazelwood and Florissant until it reaches Lewis & Clark Boulevard (Route 367).
Introduced in 1927 in commemoration of Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, Aviator playing cards feature a bordered, monotone back design of predominantly circles.
The bioreactor used in this project was custom made, based on an organ perfusion pump designed by Alexis Carrel and Charles Lindbergh.
Mrs. Knight is best known for building Vikingsholm, but she and her husband were primary backers of Charles Lindbergh's non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
Among the many victims of his pranks were such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford and the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen.
Bass shoes (including those worn by Charles Lindbergh during his Atlantic crossing and Admiral Byrd in his expeditions to Antarctica) were made exclusively in Wilton for more than a century until 1998.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh made a landing in Borongaj Airfield (east of Zagreb) after his successful crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
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This was another record broken by Trout and was later recognized by King Carol II of Romania where a representative gave her the Royal Decree and the aviation cross for pilots who made record flights, a distinction which was only given to two other pilots - Earhart and Charles Lindbergh.
The Centennial Challenges are based on a long history of technology prize contests, including the Longitude prize (won by John Harrison), the Orteig Prize (won by Charles Lindbergh), the Ansari X PRIZE (won by Scaled Composites), and the DARPA Grand Challenge (won by Stanford University in 2005 and Carnegie Mellon University in 2007).
Among those illustrious aviators to touch down on its runways were Charles Lindbergh, aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis," and Amelia Earhart.
It was intended to bring as much publicity to the city as the Spirit of St. Louis did earlier in the year with Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic crossing.
On February 12, 1917, Rep Charles Lindbergh, Sr., father of "Lucky Lindy", offered articles of impeachment against five members of the Federal Reserve Board.
The Lockheed Model 8 Sirius was a single engine, propeller-driven monoplane designed and built by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee while they were engineers at Lockheed in 1929, at the request of Charles Lindbergh.
Charles Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight increased interest in aviation, and together with several other flight-related adventure strips, Scorchy Smith debuted in 1930, created by John Terry for AP Newsfeatures.