Charles A. Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis, Roosevelt Field, 20 May 1927. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
American aviator, engineer and Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Lindbergh (1902- 1974) poses with the ‘Spirit of St Louis,’ the plane he used to make the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic, May 1927. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)