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Last week several thousand robins, wrens and starlings, migrating from their winter homes, were lost in a fog off New York Harbor. Happily, they found refuge on the steamship, Elbro, anchored near Ambrose Light. Some were killed by dashing themselves against the cabins of the ship. Bird-lovers were touched but, most of the world knew naught of feathered events, at a time when French birdmen had found no refuge and U. S. birdmen were preparing to migrate across the Atlantic...
...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...
...Start. Dropping its landing gear to lessen its load, the White Bird skirted the southern coasts of England and Ireland, pointed its nose toward Newfoundland. It had no wireless. It was flying north of the usual steamship lanes. An angry wind from the west was beating in its face, slowing its speed. Expecting to reach New York in 35 hours, it carried only enough gasoline for 40 hours flying...
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...
Meanwhile experts expressed astonishment that the White Bird should take off in the face of unfavorable weather conditions. Weather Bureau officials said that adverse winds in Mid-Atlantic would retard the plane by 25 miles an hour. Said U. S. Aviator Floyd Bennet: "Fighting a head wind is discouraging and uses a lot of gasoline...