Who flew the Spirit of St. Louis?
The Spirit of St. Louis (book) of the book flew in space on the first competitive Ansari X Prize flight in 2004, SpaceShipOne flight 16P. The X Prize was inspired by the Orteig Prize that Lindbergh won for his flight. The Spirit of St. Louis (book) The Spirit of St. Louis is an autobiographical account by Charles Lindbergh about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis", a custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane (Registration: N-X-211). The book was published on September 14, 1953, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. The book covers a period of
Spirit of St. Louis "like Lindy flew." The Mahoney Ryan B-1 "Brougham" was also used as the basis of a reproduction of the "Spirit of St. Louis". The reproduction was used in the 1938 Paramount film "Men with Wings" starring Ray Milland. All three reproductions from the Warner Bros. film "The Spirit of St Louis" (1956) have survived with B-153 on display at the Missouri History Museum, in St. Louis, B-156 is part of the collection at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and B-159 belongs to the Cradle of Aviation Museum located in Garden City, Long Island, New York, not far from