Spirit of St. Louis Cockpit Instrument Panel and Flight Controls (1927)

Interior photograph of the Spirit of St. Louis cockpit showing the instrument panel, periscope control, and fuel valve manifold. — Spirit of St. Louis Cockpit Instrument Panel and Flight Controls (1927) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

A vintage positive slide from Donald A. Hall Sr.'s technical files documenting the cockpit instrumentation of the Spirit of St. Louis. The close-up view details the instrument panel arranged for Lindbergh's transatlantic crossing, including the Pioneer Earth Inductor Compass indicator, liquid column airspeed indicator, altimeter, tachometer, turn-and-bank indicator, eight-day clock, and magnetic compass. Below the instrument cluster, the photograph details the periscope sliding sleeve, throttle linkage, cabin heat control, and the complex multi-valve brass fuel selector manifold used to manage five separate fuel tanks.