Charles Lindbergh Archives - Stuck at the Airport

Raise a glass of milk to the flying cow

02/16/26

February 18th is “Elm Farm Ollie Day,” which pays tribute to the day in 1930 when a gentle Guernsey cow was flown 72 miles from Bismarck, Missouri to the International Air Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri aboard a Ford Trimotor plane. As if a flying cow isn’t unusual enough, the cow, also known as Nellie →

Animals

A fistful of festivals to head for this summer

05/13/19

A fistful of fun festivals to plan a trip around this summer. →

Lost airport amenity: Lindbergh’s monocoupe leaving St. Louis airport

06/08/18

St. Louis Lambert International Airport is saying goodbye to an aviation treausure: an airplane once owned by Charles Lindbergh that has been suspended in a terminal is coming down and being put in storage. →

Smithsonian offers eye-level view of Spirit of St. Louis

01/20/15

The “Spirit of St. Louis” – the plane in which a 26-year-old Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo transatlantic flight in May, 1927 – is one of the most popular artifacts at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The plane is usually suspended from the gallery ceiling, but for the next five months the →

Fancy a flight to Paris? Charles Lindbergh did.

05/21/14

Fancy a flight to Paris? Charles Lindbergh did. →

Aviation history

Lindbergh’s plane back at Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

10/22/13

Lindbergh's plane back at Lambert-St. Louis Int'l Airport →

Aviation history

They didn’t call him Lucky Lindy for nothing

04/26/11

Charles Lindbergh's 1934 Monocoupe D-145 is safe. It was removed from Lambert Airport a month before the tornado. →

Tornado closes Lambert-St. Louis Airport indefinitely

04/23/11

Damage by tornado at Lambert-St Louis International Airport. →

Daylight Saving Time: where to watch the clock

11/06/10

(Boston: courtesy Marriott’s Custom House) Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends at 2 a.m. Sunday morning when we “fall back” to standard time by turning our clocks back one hour. As you rush around resetting the clocks on the microwave, the TV and the bedside alarm, imagine yourself watching time fly in one of the clock-worthy →

Museum Monday: Looking for Lindbergh

08/30/10

There are more than 700 aviation and space-related museums in this country. Each Monday we profile one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. This week: Looking for Lindbergh Aviator and explorer Charles Lindbergh died on August 26th back in 1974, so it’s as good a time as any to take a look at some →

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