The Spirit of St. Louis Aircraft Paper Model - by Shigeru Takigami

Created by Japanese designer Shigeru Takigami, here is a beautiful miniature paper model in 1/72 scale of the iconic airplane "The Spirit of St. Louis".

The Spirit of St. Louis is the custom-built, single engine, single-seat, high wing monoplane that was flown by Charles Lindbergh on May 20 – 21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. Lindbergh took off in the Spirit from Roosevelt Airfield, Garden City, New York, and landed 33 hours, 30 minutes later at Aéroport Le Bourget in Paris, France, a distance of approximately 3,600 miles (5,800 km). One of the best-known aircraft in the world, the Spirit was built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego, California, owned and operated at the time by Benjamin Franklin Mahoney, who had purchased it from its founder, T. Claude Ryan, in 1926. The Spirit is on permanent display in the main entryway's Milestones of Flight gallery at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Criado pelo designer japonês Shigeru Takigami, eis aqui um belo modelo de papel em miniatura na escala 1/72 do icônico avião "The Spirit of St. Louis".

O Spirit of St. Louis é um monomotor de asa única feito sob encomenda e pilotado por Charles Lindbergh entre os dias 20 e 21 de maio de 1927, no primeiro voo transatlântico solo sem escalas de Long Island, Nova York, a Paris, França, para a qual Lindbergh ganhou o Prêmio Orteig de US $ 25 mil. Lindbergh decolou do campo de Roosevelt, em Nova York, e pousou 33 horas e 30 minutos depois no Aéroport Le Bourget, em Paris, França, cobrindo uma distância de aproximadamente 5.800 quilômetros. Uma das aeronaves mais conhecidas do mundo, o Spirit foi construído pela Ryan Airlines em San Diego, Califórnia, de propriedade e operada na época por Benjamin Franklin Mahoney, que a adquiriu de seu fundador, T. Claude Ryan, em 1926 O Spirit está em exposição permanente na galeria Milestones of Flight, na entrada principal no Museu Nacional do Ar e do Espaço da Smithsonian Institution em Washington, DC.

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