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The spirit of St. Louis.

by Lindbergh, Charles A.
Published by : Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) Physical details: xii, 561 p. Year: 1953
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Part I. The craft --
St. Louis-Chicago mail --
New York --
San Diego --
Across the continent --
Roosevelt Field --
Part II. New York to Paris --
The log of the Spirit of St. Louis --
The cruiser Memphis --
Decorations, awards & trophies / by Esther B. Mueller --
The Raymond Orteig prize --
Engineering data on the Spirit of St. Louis / by Donald A. Hall --
Specifications and general description of the Whirlwind engine / by Kenneth M. Lane.

Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.