IN NEWFOUNDLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 7

IN NEWFOUNDLAND

SKELETONS OF AIEHEtf.

NUNGESSER AND COU?

(Received March 27,10 a.m.)'

PARIS March 26,

The "Petit Journal" states that it ii believed that two skeletons beside an; aeroplane found in Newfoundland are those of Nungesser and Coli who left Le Bourget on May 8, 1927, for Isew York. . ."

Th.c two Trench airmen, Captain 2umgesser and M. Coli, left: Le- Bourget Aerodrome shortly after 5 a.m. on May 8, 1927, attempting a flight across the Atlantic. They meant to fly a distance of 3700 miles, leaving the Trench coast at Baifleur, crossing the Channel to Start Point, flying over Cornwall, and then on over the St. George's Channel to the jPastnet Lighthouse. Prom there they meant to head Straight for-Cape Baee, Newfoundland and after that follow the general line of the .coast to New York. They had about. 16} hours of daylight and. expected to complete more than half of their journey'before sunset. They would then. have about 1500 miles of night flying before reaching New York. The average speed'they; expected was from 100 to 110 miles an' hour. The aeroplane was a Levasseur biplane with a 450 h.p. Lorraine Dietrich engine and had a boat-shaped, watertight fuselage which would float in the case of a forced descent. The plans made were the result of prolonged tests, but the outcome was one more demonstration (there were a number that year) of the extreme hazard of tha Atlantic flight from east to west. Tha aeroplane was last seen over Dungarvinj County Waterford, at 10.5 a.m.