Planes of Fame Hanriot with Roscoe Turner and Gilmore

Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:37 am

Wonder what the story is? Where, when?

One of the women is Katherine Cheung, well known 1930s aviatrix, who pased away in 2005- http://www.awam.org/Katherine%20Cheung.htm , http://www.audreymagazine.com/dec2005/Living01.asp

and another one of just the airplane-

Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:37 am

I believe the plane once belonged to French WWI pilot Charles Nungesser who vanished in 1927 trying to fly the Atlantic just before Lindbergh. Thats his symbol on the side of the aircraft...

http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisat ... esser.html

Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:59 pm

It is Nungesser's plane, but the upper photo seems to have been taken well after his death, so what's the story on it??

Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:51 am

There was a story on the Planes of Fame collection in Air & Space a month or so ago and how they got this aircraft. It did belong to Nungesser and he brought it to the states. I'll have to did up the article to find out the whole story on how it ended up at PoF...

Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:55 am

Here's the Air & Space article. The Nungesser bit is on page 3...

http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2008/ ... php?page=1