| CHARLESLINDBERGH | US aviator born in 1902 whose aircraft was the Spirit of St Louis |
| CECIL | Biographer born at Hatfield House in 1902, whose spymaster ancestor, Robert, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was the principal discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot (5) |
| HELICOPTER | What type of aircraft was the 1936 Focke-Wulf Fw 61, considered to be the first successful, practical example? (10) |
| BOMBER | What type of aircraft was the World War I Handley Page 0/400? (6) |
| ORANGEFREESTATE | Former republic (1854-1902) whose capital was Bloemfontein (6,4,5) |
| LINDBERGH | Charles ___, pilot of the Spirit of St Louis (9) |
| ALONE | Like Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis |
| LOUIS | Charles Lindbergh made the successful trans-Atlantic flight in his custom aircraft, the Spirit of St |
| LINDY | Lucky ___ (nickname for the Spirit of St. Louis pilot) |
| PLANE | The Spirit of St. Louis, e.g. |
| ABA | NBA rival that included the Spirits of St. Louis |
| AMELIAEARHART | Aviator born in 1897 who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (6,7) |
| ORLY | Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis landed at this Paris airfield in 1927 to complete the first solo airb |
| AMYJOHNSON | Aviator born in 1903 who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia (3,7) |
| BFGOODRICH | *It provided tires for Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis |
| BESSIE | ____ Coleman, early U.S. civil aviator born in 1892 (6) |
| ESPRIT | Spirit of St. Louis? |
| AMY | ___ Johnson pioneering English aviator born in 1903 (3) |
| NASH | Ogden, U.S. writer of humorous poetry born in 1902 (4) |
| ZANUCK | Darryl F. ****** , US film producer born in 1902 (6) |
