
Source: FlightGlobal |
Date: 2008-07-15
...non-stop between New York and Paris. Lindbergh undertook his transatlantic attempt in a specially-modified Ryan NYP Monoplane, staying awake for 33 hours before bringing the Spirit of St Louis in to a safe landing at Le Bourget, on the...

Source: FlightGlobal |
Date: 2004-10-05
...world view created by SVS would have compensated for the non-existent forward visibility from the cockpit of his Ryan NYP monoplane. Yet Lindbergh foresaw the need and, having neither technology, proclaimed that "aviation will never amount...

Source: FlightGlobal |
Date: 2009-01-02
...worldwide and paved the way for today's all-metal cantilever monoplanes. OVERSHADOWED But this extraordinary achievement...gravitational forces. On 21 May 1927, Charles Lindbergh took the Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis into history by flying solo non-stop...