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Charles Nungesser Transatlantic Flight Try In 1927...
Charles Nungesser Transatlantic Flight Try In 1927...
Item # 568557
May 12, 1927
THE DETROIT NEWS, Michigan, May 12, 1927
* Charles Nungesser disappears - search
* Transatlantic airplane flight try
* Just before Charles Lindbergh's attempt
This 56 page newspaper has one column headline on the front page: "CLUE TO FLIERS GIVEN IN NORTH" "Newfoundland Men Report Hearing Plane Early on Monday Morning" "U. S. WIDENS SEA SEARCH"
Other news of the day throughout. Light browning with some binding holes along left side with minor margin wear, otherwise good.
source: wikipedia: Nungesser and his navigator François Coli disappeared on 8 May 1927 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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