Spirit of St. Louis

Spirit of St. Louis (nr. de înmatriculare: N-X-211) este un monoplan personalizat cu un singur motor și un singur loc cu care Charles Lindbergh a zburat în 20-21 mai 1927, în primul zbor transatlantic de la Long Island, New York, la Paris, Franța, pentru care Lindbergh a câștigat Premiul Orteig de 25.000 de dolari.

Spirit of St. Louis expus în National Air and Space Museum.

Timbru american de 10 cenți emis în onoarea căpitanului Charles Lindbergh și a aeronavei Spirit of St Louis (emis la 11 iunie 1927)

Aeronava lui Lindbergh a decolat pe aerodromul Roosevelt din Garden City, New York, și a aterizat după 33 ore și 30 de minute pe Aeroportul Le Bourget din Paris, Franța, parcurgând o distanță de aproximativ 3.600 de mile (5.800 km). Unul dintre cele mai cunoscute avioane din lume, Spirit a fost fabricat de către compania Ryan Airlines din San Diego, California, care era deținută și operată în acea vreme de Benjamin Franklin Mahoney care o achiziționase de la fondatorul său, T. Claude Ryan, în 1926. Spirit este expus permanent acum galeria Milestones of Flight de la principala cale de acces în National Air and Space Museum a Smithsonian Institution din Washington, D.C.

Referințe

Bibliografie

• Bak, Richard. The Big Jump: Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race. Hoboken, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. ISBN 978-0-471-47752-5.
• Belfiore, Michael. Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 2007. ISBN 978-0-06-114903-0.
• Bowers, Peter M. "The Many Splendid Spirits of St. Louis." Air Progress, Volume 20, No. 6, June 1967.
• Cassagneres, Ev. The Untold Story of the Spirit of St. Louis: From the Drawing Board to the Smithsonian. New Brighton, Minnesota: Flying Book International, 2002. ISBN 0-911139-32-X.
• Forden, Lesley. The Ford Air Tours: 1925–1931. Alameda, California: Nottingham Press, 1973. ISBN 978-0-9725249-1-9.
• Gill. Brendan. Lindbergh Alone. New York: Harcourt, 1980. ISBN 978-0-1515-2401-3.
• Hall, Donald A. Technical Preparation of the Airplane "Spirit of St. Louis" N.A.C.A. Technical Note #257 Washington, DC: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, July 1927. Retrieved: 18 mai 2007.
• Hall, Nova S. Spirit and Creator: The Mysterious Man Behind Lindbergh's Flight to Paris. Sheffield, Maryland: ATN Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0-9702964-4-4.
• Hardwick, Jack and Ed Schnepf. "A Viewer's Guide to Aviation Movies." The Making of the Great Aviation Films. General Aviation Series, Volume 2, 1989.
• Jackson, Joe. Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. ISBN 978-0-37410-675-1.
• Lindbergh, Charles A. Spirit of St. Louis. New York: Scribners, 1953.
• Nevin, David, ed. The Pathfinders (The Epic of Flight, v. 2). Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1980. ISBN 0-8094-3256-0.
• Simpson, Rod. "Preserving the Spirit". Air-Britain Aviation World, Volume 55, no. 4, 2003. ISSN 0950-7434.
• Wohl, Robert. The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920–1950. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-300-10692-0.

Legături externe

• NYP Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh – Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum^{[nefuncțională]}
• The Spirit of St. Louis, charleslindbergh.com
• Lindbergh's Transatlantic Flight: New York to Paris Timeline, May 20–21, 1927, charleslindbergh.com
• Photo Archive by Donald A. Hall: Designer of the Spirit of St. Louis, charleslindbergh.com
• Raymond Orteig-$25,000 prize, charleslindbergh.com
• "Lindbergh's Great Partner", Popular Science, August 1927 pp. 12–13/123-125, one of earliest articles on Spirit of St. Louis.
• B.F. Mahoney was the "mystery man" behind the Ryan company that built Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis
• The Spirit of St. Louis airborne over Paris as Lindbergh leaves for Belgium, the next stop after a few days in France(flickr)(large detailed picture, if it won't reduce just hit 'refresh' button)
• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome's Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis reproduction page