French launch bid to rewrite history books w/claim that Lindbergh was NOT first to fly/the Atlantic

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 11-13=10 | "reporter"

[Tublecane]

“It was also the first solo flight across the Atlantic”

That’s how I remember it being put.

[atomic conspiracy]

Lindbergh's many personal shortcomings do not change the facts of history. Even if they did, and we also exclude the solo qualification, precedence would go to Americans Clarence Chamberlain and Charles Levine, who flew from New York to Eisleben Germany a few weeks after Lindbergh and got there alive.

[Scanian]

Thanks for the correction.

50 year-old memories can be treacherous.

Hell, remembering what I had for lunch yesterday can be a challenge!

[IndyTiger]

That last word seems important.

Yeah, surviving does make a big difference, LOL.

[Tublecane]

“know any landing you can walk away from is a good landing”

I’ve never liked this saying. Doesn’t everyone realize planes cost money? How is crashing them a good thing, even if you walk away?

[atomic conspiracy]

Landing a dead man on the Moon wouldn’t have been much of an achievement, and we would look like fools or French journalists if we claimed that it trumped a later flight by someone who got back alive.

[Tublecane]

“Charles Lindbergh is renowned as the first person to fly across the Atlantic, but according to new research, he was beaten to the achievement ten days earlier.”

Don’t you love it when people spice up stories by pulling myths out of thin air and debunking them? Lucky Lindy (the flying fool) has always been, to my knowledge, renowned as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Now I hear he was the first to fly across the Atlantic period.

But wait, he wasn’t. There were these other guys.

Oh, but they died. So I guess he was.

Ugh, what a waste of time.

[VanDeKoik]

I think you have to live in order to collect the prize.

[MNDude]

My history book says it was a guy named Mohammed.

[dhs12345]

Plus, didn’t he support the Germans during WWII?

[dhs12345]

...on his magic carpet.

[atomic conspiracy]

I love the picture caption:

"Pioneers: New evidence suggest Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli may have died after successfully completing a transatlantic flight in 1927"

By this standard, poor Lt/Col Custer died after successfully attacking an Indian encampment.

[mad_as_he$$]

Article sucks. Lindy was not the first to fly across the Atlantic. Many had done so prior to him. He was the first to do it SOLO.

[mad_as_he$$]

Mexican?

[Scanian]

Close...I did make some Caribbean-style beans to go with rice and boneless pork ribs.

But I had to think real hard to remember.

[Tublecane]

“By this standard, poor Lt/Col Custer died after successfully attacking an Indian encampment.”

LOL

[niteowl77]

Based on what I've read about Nungesser,* I doubt he'd appreciate some advocate going around padding his accomplishments or denigrating someone else's. His luck ran out, Lindbergh's didn't.

Mr. niteowl77

*His WWI career is sadly overlooked today.

[Dudoight]

not only that, I just saw his biography on TV...the guy had 3 women by whom he had a load of children in Germany..while still married to Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

He felt he had those superior Aryan genes and wanted to make sure they were dispersed as much as possible for posterity.

What a piece of work.

[sonofagun]

Well Mr. Decré, we have a saying in this country.

Close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades.

[Oztrich Boy]

It was more like 80

About 80 and a kitteh *The R34 had a cat on the crew list