The Spirit of St. Louis (Charles Lindbergh)

Washington, D.C. (Air & Space Museum)

I think the Spirit of St. Louis is a truly remarkable piece of aviation history and machinery. A one of kind, barely tested, single engine aircraft flies straight from the manufacturers plant in San Diego to New York (via St. Louis), and then a mere few weeks later, is flown for more than 33 straight hours across the Atlantic Ocean, non-stop, New York City to Paris by a lone 25 year old boy with no form of modern navigational or communication equipment guided by a simple compass, the stars and luck, in May of 1927.

Joseph Cator