Sunday, June 28, 2020

The short flight of the Old Glory



Four months after Lindbergh made the first solo transatlantic flight, Randolph Hearst sponsored another transatlantic flight attempt, this time nonstop to Rome with three people on board. It was decided that the flight should start at Old Orchard Beach Maine and with great publicity and fanfare the single engine Fokker F-VIIa took off on September 6, 1927. Several hundred miles off Newfoundland the pilot radioed that they were having difficulties and the airplane soon ditched in the Atlantic. Wreckage was found but the crew was never seen again.  Story here.

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