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...Directed Coast Guard aircraft and cutters guarding the transatlantic lanes against icebergs to aid in the search for Captains Nungesser and Coli, missing French flyers...
Nungesser & Coli. More than eight days had passed since Capt. Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser, idol of Paris, onetime cowpuncher in Argentina, multi-wounded War ace with platinum-patched bones, and Capt. François Coli, son of a hardy clan of seamen, with a black patch over his right eye, left the Paris airport of Le Bourget (TIME, May 16). It was barely possible that they had lost their way in the fog and were alive somewhere in the wilderness of Labrador. It was more likely that heavy ice on the wings of their plane forced them to death...
...wireless message last week, obviously a hoax, said: "Nungesser and Coli have been located. The two aviators trekked into Trinity [Newfoundland] late Thursday afternoon. . . . They were bedraggled and weary. News follows by cable. Please distribute to newspapers...
White Bird, the biplane of Captain Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser and Captain Francois Coli had come out of its hangar. The plainsfolk, awed, were so quiet they could hear the gurgle of 1,000 gallons of gasoline which were promptly put into the White Bird. Its engine was tested?roared magnificently. Soon Captains Nungesser and Coli gave it a final inspection. Soon they kissed relatives, mechanics, engineers; climbed aboard, while French soldiers with bayonets kept the crowd at a distance. Engineer Carol, designer of the White Bird, fell to the ground, weeping, as the plane left the soil...
Hope. The world waited?40 hours, 50 hours?no ship had seen or heard the White Bird since it soared along the Irish coast line. Captains Nungesser and Coli were either floating on the Atlantic's waves or resting in peace on its bed. Ships and planes set out from Europe and America with hopes of seeing a floating White Bird...