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Field in Paris, heading for New York. Their PL.8-01 weighed 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) on takeoff, extremely heavy for a single-engined aircraft, barely clearing a line of trees at the end of the field. Gathering an escort of French fighter aircraft, Nungesser and Coli turned back as planned, and
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The evaluations proceeded successfully through the flight envelope without major changes required to the basic design. The only incident of note was a fire that broke out in the hangar where the PL.8-01 had been stored. Scorched fabric on the top wing was the result with effective repairs carried out
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is considered one of the great mysteries in the history of aviation. Many rumors circulated about the fate of the aircraft and crew, with mainstream opinion at the time being that it was probably lost in a squall over the
Atlantic. Investigations starting in the 1980s suggest that it probably reached
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The PL.8 also incorporated several safety features in case of ditching at sea. Apart from small floats attached directly to the undersides of the lower wing, the main units of the fixed, tailskid undercarriage could be jettisoned on takeoff, in order to reduce the aircraft's weight. The underside of
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had made it to the continent. Little of the aircraft would have remained, since it was created primarily from plywood and canvas. The parts most likely to endure would have been the engine and the aluminum fuel tanks. In Maine, bits and pieces of struts were found, and wood similar to the kind used
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Major modifications included the reinforcement of the plywood fuselage, and removing two of the forward cockpits so the main cockpit could be widened to allow
Nungesser and Coli to sit side by side. The wingspan was also increased to approximately 15 m (49 ft). Two additional fuel tanks
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offered the $ 25,000 Orteig Prize (approximately equivalent to $ 439,000 in 2023) to the first aviators to make a non-stop transatlantic flight between New York and Paris in the next five years. No one won the prize, so he renewed the offer in 1924. At that point, aviation technology was more
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had been carrying a sizable load of fuel, 4,000 litres (1,100 US gal), which would have given them approximately 42 hours of flight time. After this time had passed, with no word as to the aircraft's fate, it was realized that the aircraft had been lost. In France, the public was
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in 1927, to mark the last place from which the biplane was seen in France, but it was destroyed in 1942 by the occupying German army. A new 24 m (79 ft) high monument, the "Monument
Nungesser et Coli", was erected in 1963 atop one of the cliffs. There is also a nearby museum.
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to build the biplane. Engine metal was also found near the town of
Machias that was not typical to the United States or Canada. Two residents described a large metal object, a "really big motor", which had been dragged out of the woods for salvage along a logging path. In 2011,
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that
Nungesser and Coli had "vanished like midnight ghosts". In 1992, divers traveled to Newfoundland and searched Great Gull Pond for a wreck, but they found nothing and were not even sure that they had located the right lake. Other lakes were also searched, from
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advanced the theory that the two aviators made it across the ocean but crashed and perished in the woods of Maine. Nungesser's relative
William Nungesser made several trips to Maine to search, focusing his energies around the north slope of Round Lake Hills in
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just days earlier. It is also suggested that it was
Lindbergh's historic success which gave a major boost to the American aviation industry, without which the course of America's military and industrial accomplishments might have been quite different.
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biplane. Tarascon was badly burned and relinquished his place as pilot to 35-year-old
Charles Nungesser, a highly experienced flying ace with over 40 victories, third highest among the French. He had been planning a solo crossing to win the
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The disappearance of
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s engine had been located in Maine, but nothing was confirmed. Stories emerged in 1948 from reports that caribou hunters and fur trappers had found aircraft wreckage in Great Gull Pond in Newfoundland.
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As of 2008, the landing gear (or, more accurately, "takeoff gear", since there was no intention to land on it) is the only confirmed part of the biplane remaining, and is on display at the
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advanced and many people were working toward winning it. Most were attempting to fly from New York to Paris, but a number of French aviators planned to fly from Paris to New York.
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also sent out two search aircraft, of which one crashed. Searchers including the French Navy, the United States Navy, and the Royal Canadian Navy scoured the route, including
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In 1984, the French government made an official investigation, concluding that it was possible that the aircraft had reached Newfoundland. In 1989, the NBC television series
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crashed over the Atlantic due to a squall. Nonetheless, 12 witnesses in Newfoundland and Maine claimed to have heard the aircraft as it passed overhead. Residents at
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the fuselage was given a boat-like shape and made watertight for a water landing. Nungesser and Coli's plan was to make a water landing in New York, in front of the
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engines. The engine was tested to ensure it would last the entire flight, and was run for over 40 hours while still in the Parisian factory.
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in Manhattan to have a good view of the Statue of Liberty, where the aircraft was scheduled to touch down. Rumors circulated that
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with 12 victories from the war. They became interested in the Orteig Prize in 1925, but in late 1926, an accident destroyed their
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Heins, Catherine. "White Bird's trail fading – Many convinced trans-Atlantic flier made it to Maine."
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took off from Paris on 8 May 1927 and were last seen over Ireland. Less than two weeks later,
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depicted in a contemporary painting, after the undercarriage has been jettisoned.
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Period radios were considered too unreliable to be worth the extra weight.
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successfully made the New York–Paris journey and claimed the prize in the
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Atlantic Wings 1919–1939: The Conquest of the North Atlantic by Aeroplane
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Farrell, John Aloysius. "Unraveling the mystery of White Bird's flight."
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François Coli, age 45, was a World War I veteran and recipient of the
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Clayton, John. "The White Bird: Tracking an aviation mystery to NH."
1143:(TIGHAR), Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1987. Retrieved: 17 January 2009.
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had been sighted along its route, in Newfoundland, or over
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biplane. Based on the Levasseur PL.4 developed for the
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1208:Wiggens, Bill. "Mystery of the White Bird."
752:finding the aircraft. And in the 2018 novel
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1637:"Étretat naturellement belle." (in French).
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1114:O'Mara, Richard. "Surviving Amelia."
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1737:"Lost Aviators: New Lakes Named."
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1537:"Bangor Daily News July 13, 1987"
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1248:2006. Retrieved: 18 January 2009.
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2272:Moncrieff and Hood disappearance
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1885:. New York: Random House, 1971.
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766:Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace
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1153:Jordan, John (28 May 2020).
1004:Montague 1971, pp. 102, 132.
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1522:25 December 2013 at the
934:List of missing aircraft
621:of aviation mysteries".
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159:and may have crashed in
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1694:"Timbre Nungesser Coli"
1677:23 October 2016 at the
1623:The Wall Street Journal
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602:The Wall Street Journal
584:The Spirit of St. Louis
1898:Lindbergh: A Biography
1617:28 August 2017 at the
1451:"US National Archives"
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1278:McDonough 1966, p. 31.
1257:McDonaugh 1966, p. 30.
1179:McDonaugh 1966, p. 29.
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1810:Prell, Owen (2018).
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1610:Moffett, Sebastian.
1221:Mosley 2000, p. 102.
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299:skull and crossbones
2383:Individual aircraft
1989:Wall Street Journal
1881:Montague, Richard.
1747:The West Australian
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201:Background
170:Le Bourget
115:(English:
96:April 1927
1838:Lindbergh
992:Citations
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432:La Presse
403:Dungarvan
388:HMS
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703:51°29′N
675:93°35′W
672:51°19′N
657:in the
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619:Everest
589:Machias
576:Étretat
509:Amistad
469:Mystery
397:on the
395:Needles
384:Étretat
246:At the
175:Étretat
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377:Boston
288:Napier
232:Orteig
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261:BĂ©arn
161:Maine
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2072:Roma
1947:ISBN
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