The Spirit of St. Louis
by Lindbergh, Charles A.; Lindbergh, ReeveFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-12-09
Publisher(s): Scribner
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Summary
Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again...." -- FromThe Spirit of St. LouisCharles A. Lindbergh captured the world's attention -- and changed the course of history -- when he completed his famous nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. InThe Spirit of St. Louis,Lindbergh takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, bringing to life the thrill and peril of trans-Atlantic travel in a single-engine plane. Eloquently told and sweeping in its scope, Lindbergh's Pulitzer Prize-winning account is an epic adventure tale for all time.
Author Biography
Charles A. Lindbergh was twenty-five years old when he made his world-famous journey across the North Atlantic. A native of Little Falls, Minnesota, he would later serve as an aircraft consultant to the Ford Motor Company and the United Aircraft Corporation during World War II. In 1954, Lindbergh was appointed brigadier general in the air force reserve. He died in 1974.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| The Craft | |
| The St. Louis-Chicago Mail | p. 3 |
| New York | p. 51 |
| San Diego | p. 79 |
| Across the Continent | p. 134 |
| Roosevelt Field | p. 148 |
| New York to Paris | |
| New York to Paris | p. 181 |
| Afterword | p. 493 |
| Appendix | |
| The Log of the Spirit of St. Louis | p. 503 |
| The Cruiser Memphis | p. 517 |
| Decorations, Awards, and Trophies | p. 517 |
| The Raymond Orteig Prize | p. 530 |
| Engineering Data on the Spirit of St. Louis | p. 531 |
| Specifications and General Description of the Whirlwind Engine | p. 545 |
| We | p. 547 |
| Other Books, Magazine Articles, and Press Accounts | p. 547 |
| Glossary | p. 549 |
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