The amount of fuel that Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis used to cross the Atlantic was 450 US gallons. It is also stated that the first flight of the Spirit of St. Louis was on April 28, 1927.
Lindbergh's 'Spirit of St.Louis' carried 450 gallons of fuel.
Charles Lindbergh flew in the Spirit of St. Louis and became the first to cross the Atlantic. The plane today is in the air and space museum in Washington DC.
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May 21 1927
To be the first person to cross the Atlantic .
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh was the first aviator to cross the Atlantic Ocean while flying 'The Spirit of St. Louis'. In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane. She repeated the feat over the Pacific in 1935.
Charles Lindbergh is a hero because he was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane with no stops
To get to the other side. To be first person to cross Atlantic by plane alone
SAN DIEGO the "spirit of st Louis" was custom made for linbergh by Ryan aircraft - they built it in a run down converted fish cannery in two months - Lindbergh believed that the best soliution to cross the Atlantic was a small single engine plane for light weight to conserve fuel - no other plane manufacturers beleived that as they thought it would require large multiengined planes with at least 2 crew - people at Ryan aircraft new Lindbergh was correct and offered to custom make him the aircraft - the letter designation NYP stands for New York to Paris because this aircrat was designed and built for only one purpose, to cross the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh made his famous non-stop flight across the Atlantic from May 20 to 21 of 1927. He flew from Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France.
The Spirit of St. Louis, the Ryan NX-2ll is a star exhibit in the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian, which also houses the famous Wright Flyer, Vin Fizz * early Cross-country aircraft) and many other planes of historic import.