Summary
Everyone knows that on a misty May morning 75 years ago, a brave young guy named Charles A. Lindbergh hopped into a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis and made the first solo trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris. He spent the next years of his life, of course, as a national hero and a person of great public curiosity. Back before we had celebrity gossip in every newspaper and magazine, we had Lindbergh's story: his marriage to the writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the tragic kidnapping of their baby son, Lindbergh's wartime accomplishments and remarks, and his later work with medicine and the environment.
But aviation historians are more concerned with other aspects of Lindbergh's famous flight: What about the airplane itself? Who can tell ITS story?See the full content of this document
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Lindberg's Spirit of St. Louis
Now Ev Cassagneres, a Cheshire resident and longtime aviation enthusiast, has come forward with the first book about the most famous airplane of all time. "The Untold Story of the Spirit of St. Louis," was pu...
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