“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.
"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.