1924, he became a flying cadet in the United States Air Reserve, training at Brooks and Kelly fields near San Antonio, Texas. He graduated with a pursuit pilot's rating and a rank of second lieutenant. The Robertson Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis hired him as a test pilot, flying mail from St. Louis to Chicago. 1927, First successful Solo Transatlantic Flight from the New York to Paris.
He developed the artificial heart and lung, with the help of Dr. Alexis Carrel.
1929, he did flyby photographs of Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula.
he is famous for flying being the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping on one tank of gas. he was only 25 when he did this alone.
The first non-stop Atlantic crossing by aircraft.
Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly a single engine aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. he did this on his own in 1927 in a monoplane, The Spirit of St Louis.
Flying the Atlantic solo was Lindbergh's main contribution.
He made the first successful non-stop airplane flight from New York to Paris.
Lindbergh's aircraft, 'Spirit of St Louis', was silver.
The first nonstop flight was flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in a Vickers Vimy. The first solo nonstop flight was taken by Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit of Saint Louis.
The Spirit of St. Louis, the plane Charles Lindbergh flew on the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, is in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Since this was posted under WW2, I guess you mean the most famous individual plane. (I assume you do NOT mean the best airplane in the war.) "Enola Gay", the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb. If this was posted in general Aircraft category, I would have to say the most famous non-military airplane was "The Spirit of St. Louis", the plane Charles Lindberg flew solo across the Atlantic.
The Spirit of St Louis was built around the Wright J-5C "Whirwind" engine.
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Charles Lindbergh's plane was called the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Charles A. Lindburg's "Spirit of St. Louis". This plane was special made for Lindberg by the Ryan Aircraft company. It was christened with the name "Spirit of St. Louis".
It is a book written about Charles Lindberg's flight across the Atlantic Ocean - this was the first solo flight across the Atlantic.
Spirit of St. Louis Of course, if you're referring to the one that he flew across the Atlantic Ocean. I believe he had other airplanes. The "Spirit" was manufactured by the Ryan Airplane Company or some such name for the flight.
The airplane named Spirit of St. Louis was flown from Roosevelt Field in Garden City, Long Island, a few miles east of New York City, to Le Bourget Field in Paris by Charles "Lucky Lindy" Lindbergh.
Charles Lindbergh's plane, Spirit of St. Louis, is nearly as famous as he is. This is the plane he flew non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
"Spirit of St. Louis" was named in honor of Lindbergh's financial supporters in St. Louis, Missouri, who paid for the aircraft. The aicraft was designated "NYP" is an acronym for "New York-Paris" and was made by Ryan Aircraft in San Diego, CA.