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Library of Congress Archive, Courtesy of Greg Powers, 7-23-06 |
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Search Resumed for Missing French Airmen Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee: July 15, 1927 Transcribed by Bob Davis - 2-17-05 The hunters came out of the woods at Flat Bay on the west coast today with the report that about 40 miles inland they sighted what looked like a large white boat. |
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is Found at Point May. Pencilled Scrawl,"Nungesser-Coli, Help," Washed Up - New Hope Aroused," Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee: July 19, 1927 Transcribed by Bob Davis - 2-17-05 Their finding of the note in the bottle has revived hope that some trace of the missing French flyers may yet be found in this region where numerous reports of the plane's having been seen resulted in several searching expeditions being sent out. The boy fished the bottle out of the land wash and had to break it to get the paper out. The words were written on a piece of discolored paper, about three inches square, which evidently had been torn from a larger sheet. J. H. Small, inspector for the postal telegrqaph company who investigated, brought the paper to St Johns and reported that the boy's story of finding it was genuine. Mike's Cove, Point May, is at the extreme end of Burin Penninsula between Fortune Bay and Placentian Bay, about 140 miles southwest of Harbor Grace, where the first report of hearing an airplane originated after Nungesser and Coli failed to complete their trans-Atlantic flight.tag on article: |
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by Gunnar Hansen ©Yankee Magazine, June 1980 You can access the fascinating story of the White Bird by clicking on the title above. |
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It also offers three revues worthy of note as follows: 1. Charles Nungesser, French Air Service, Medical Record (1918) 2. Citation, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (4 December 1915) 3. Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (19 May 1918) You can access the page by clicking on the title above. |
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The Lindbergh Syndrome Heroes and Celebrities in a New Gilded Age, Robert Lockwood Mills Product Details Paperback: 260 pps. List Price: $13.57 Publisher: Fenestra Books, June 2005 ISBN: 1587364735 |
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Description: "The Lindbergh Syndrome: Heroes and Celebrities in a New Gilded Age explores the political, media, and cyclical forces that converged at the moment Charles Lindbergh landed a tiny plane, Spirit of St. Louis, at Le Bourget Field in Paris in 1927. It asks, "Why did Lindbergh, a reluctant hero to begin with, become the most charismatic personality of his era, against his will, merely for what he regarded as a scientific accomplishment? Why, in the starkest contrast, did Neil Armstrong, upon returning from the 1969 moon landing, become an anonymous citizen, who at all times has been granted the privacy Lindbergh was denied?" Editor's Notes Nungesser is actually mentioned throughout the first chapter, Ralph, and sporadically later in the book. Ric Gillespie of TIGHAR could verify that before leaving Maine after the third expedition in 1988, I told him I planned to write a book about the stark contrast between Lindbergh's public acclaim and the historical anonymity of Nungesser/Coli. This background is cited in my intro. Gratefully, Bob Mills |
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"On May 8, 1927 Charles Nungesser left Le Bourget airfield in France with Captain Francois Coli, his
navigator. The plane, a Levasseur P.L.8 biplane, painted with his World War I insignia of a black heart, two burning candles, a coffin,
and skull and cross bones, set out over the Atlantic ocean. Lieutenant Charles Nungesser, Captain Coli, and their plane, the
Oiseau Blanc (White Bird), were never officially seen again." If you have any more information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper |
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