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 ...

The film begins with the iconic Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 ... It then delves into earlier milestones, including Charles Lindbergh’s solo transatlantic flight and Amelia Earhart’s ...