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Charles Nungesser Transatlantic Flight Try In 1927...
Charles Nungesser Transatlantic Flight Try In 1927...
Item # 566840
June 14, 1927
THE DAY, New London, Connecticut June 14, 1927
* Charles Nungesser missing
* Transatlantic airplane flight try
* Charles Lindbergh post Atlantic flight
This 16 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "Signals in Mountains May Be Nungesser; First Sighted Sunday" with subheads. Other news of the day throughout including much on aviators Charles Lindbergh and Richard Byrd.
Small bindings holes along the spine, otherwise in good condition.
source: wikipedia: Nungesser and his navigator François Coli disappeared in1927 after they took off from Paris for New York in their aircraft L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird), a Levasseur P.L.8 biplane painted with Nungesser's old WWI insignia. Despite an international search, no trace of the men or their airplane was ever found. Two weeks later, American aviator Charles Lindbergh, flying solo, successfully crossed from New York to Paris and was given an immense hero's welcome by the French, even as they mourned for the loss of Nungesser and Coli. During Lindbergh's triumphal tour, he called on Madame Laure Nungesser, Charles Nungesser's mother, and graciously said that her son's goal had been more difficult than his. Like everyone else Lindbergh believed that if anyone could have crossed the Atlantic, it would have been Nungesser.
Category: The 20th Century
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