Radziwill.us Charles Lindbergh Memorabilia "The Spirit Of St Louis" 1956Charles Lindbergh "The Spirit Of St. Louis" 1956 Charles Scribner 5" X 8" 497 pages Hardcover Book Signed By Author. Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim,was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. He covered the 33-hour, 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km) alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. This was the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and mainland Europe. Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat. The book has been autographed on the title page by Charles Lindbergh............BOTH BOOK AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. https://radziwill.us/lichtspofstl/
