CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Aug. 20, 1929

• Swiss aviators Transatlantic flight attempt
• "Golden Age" of aviation - airplanes

The front page has a nice banner headline: "PASS AZORES IN HOP FOR U. S." with subheads. (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with all 48 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.

Background: The August 1929 transatlantic attempt by Swiss aviators Oscar Kaeser (21) and Kurt Luescher (22) stands as an extraordinarily rare and tragic footnote in Golden Age aviation history, distinguished as the first attempted non-stop westward Atlantic flight by a Swiss crew. Departing Lisbon on August 19 in a high-wing Farman F.190 monoplane named Jung Schweizerland ("Young Switzerland"), the youthful pair defied immense odds by attempting the notoriously difficult east-to-west ocean crossing—against prevailing trade winds—without naval support or advanced navigational radio gear. Their venture gained compelling notoriety when their last confirmed sighting occurred later that day over the Azores, where they circled Terceira Island to drop a final, historic message in a bottle declaring "all goes well" before vanishing into the North Atlantic without a trace. Because no wreckage or crew remains were ever recovered, this daring venture remains the sole early Swiss attempt at an ocean crossing, cementing its status as a poignant, forgotten relic among aviation historians and philatelists tracking rare ghost flights of the pre-radar era.