Charles Lindbergh (left) and Raymond Orteig

The Orteig Prize was a $25,000 reward offered in 1919 by hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first allied aviator(s) to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris or vice-versa. Download high resolution version (496x658, 38 KB)Charles Lindbergh (left) and Raymond Orteig (right) License Origin From the personal collection of Alan R Hawley. ... Download high resolution version (496x658, 38 KB)Charles Lindbergh (left) and Raymond Orteig (right) License Origin From the personal collection of Alan R Hawley. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Categories: Stub ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Hubert Julian, René Fonck, Nungesser and Coli, and other aviators made unsuccessful attempts at transatlantic flights before Charles Lindbergh won the prize in 1927 in his airplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh chose to fly solo, although this was not a requirement of the prize and required him to be at the controls for more than 30 hours. Lindbergh was both the first solo pilot and the first American to cross the Atlantic nonstop in an airplane (rather than an airship), and he promptly became a national hero. His flight was followed by the "Lindbergh boom", as public interest in air travel bloomed and aviation stocks skyrocketed. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian (21 September 1897 - February, 1983) was an Trinidad born African-American aviation pioneer. ... Cover of Time Magazine (August 23, 1926) René Paul Fonck (27 March 1894–18 June 1953) ended the Great War at the top of the list of all Allied fighter aces. ... Transatlantic flight is any flight of an aircraft, whether airplane, balloon or other device, which involves crossing the Atlantic Ocean -- with a starting point in North America or South America and ending in Europe or Africa, or vice versa. ... Image:Lindbergh. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English. ... Illustration of the The Spirit of St. ... Jump to: navigation, search Akron in flight, 2 November 1931 An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...

The Orteig Prize inspired the $10 million Ansari X Prize for repeated suborbital commercial flights. The X prize logo shows a stylised letter X representing a spacecraft trajectory and containing a starfield. ...

See also

• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people