L'Oiseau Blanc (English: The White Bird) was a French Levasseur PL.8 biplane that disappeared in 1927 during an attempt to make the first non-stop transatlantic...
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Only two examples of the type were built, with the first PL.8-01 named L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird), that gained fame as Nungesser and Coli's aircraft...
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Coli were preparing for an east-west crossing in a Levasseur aircraft, L'Oiseau Blanc. In April 1927 the various teams assembled and prepared for their attempts...
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connects with 800 destinations in Europe. On May 8, 1927, the White Bird (l'Oiseau blanc) took off from Le Bourget and its pilots, Charles Nungesser and François...
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bord L.: Où l'oiseau chante, M.: Où la source dort. L.: l'oiseau, l'oiseau chante. M.: Et l’oiseau, l’oiseau chante. L.: Dôme épais, blanc jasmin, M.:...
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Nungesser et Coli, named after the disappeared aviators of the 1927 biplane L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird). avenue Bugeaud Portal: France Trocadéro Palace The...
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departed Paris – Le Bourget Airport in the Levasseur PL 8 seaplane L'Oiseau Blanc; they disappeared somewhere in the Atlantic after last being seen crossing...
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Charles Nungesser. They took off from Paris on 8 May 1927 in the biplane L'Oiseau Blanc, but disappeared en route. In 1928, the Ontario Surveyor General named...
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only known remaining piece — the jettisoned main landing gear — of L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird), the 1927 aircraft which attempted to make the first...
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had been the departure point two weeks earlier for the French biplane L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird), which took off in an attempt at a transatlantic flight...
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