France was first to fly across the Atlantic in 1927, Nungesser and Coli left Paris in the Whitebird on the 8th May and crash landed in Washington County Maine, both survived the crash but were later murdered by local woodsmen. The Whitebirds engine was stolen and put into a sawmill. Full details in the Whitebird story a conspiracy of silence¨ available on Amazon ,com. If you know where to look the crash site is still visible on Google Earth,
While it IS probable that Nungesser and Coli did succeed in crossing the Atlantic Ocean aboard the Levasseur PL.8 biplane, L’Oiseau Blanc, the rest of your comment is pure fiction that has no place on This Day in Aviation.
France was first to fly across the Atlantic in 1927, Nungesser and Coli left Paris in the Whitebird on the 8th May and crash landed in Washington County Maine, both survived the crash but were later murdered by local woodsmen. The Whitebirds engine was stolen and put into a sawmill. Full details in the Whitebird story a conspiracy of silence¨ available on Amazon ,com. If you know where to look the crash site is still visible on Google Earth,
While it IS probable that Nungesser and Coli did succeed in crossing the Atlantic Ocean aboard the Levasseur PL.8 biplane, L’Oiseau Blanc, the rest of your comment is pure fiction that has no place on This Day in Aviation.