 A little more than a year later Lindbergh was catapulted from being an otherwise obscure 25-year-old Air Mail pilot to virtual instantaneous world fame when he successfully piloted the Ryan NYP single engine monoplane "Spirit of St. Louis" on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris in May, 1927.Elrey Jeppesen, an airmail pilot, began to keep a notebook in 1930 filled with airfield charts, fields where he could land in an emergency, and instructions on how to land safely.Jeppesen also researched and included information about telephone or railroad service near these landing fields.