There are two dates most pilots know by heart, or should know by heart: the year that Orville Wright first lifted off from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (1903) and the year that Charles Lindberg flew the Atlantic (1927). So I’m lying on the sofa last weekend channel surfing, having set down my book because I was starting to fall asleep and figured a stupid TV show might keep me awake, when what do I happen to stumble across but The Spirit of St. Louis, starring Jimmy Stewart. A 1957 flick, it paints a sentimental story of Charles Lindberg. Like I’ve written before,