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Spirit of St. Louis (First solo non-stop transatlantic flight, 1927)
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Interior view of cockpit
I’ve always loved that all this specialized work and preparation went into making the Spirit of St. Louis and its flight and a decade later “Wrong Way” Corrigan does basically the same thing in a plane repeatedly deemed unfit to fly by authorities and was leaking so much fuel Corrigan punched a hole in the floor to drain it because it was sloshing around his feet.