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(BYRD, RICHARD E.) American flag, carried by Byrd in his failed 1927 flight across the Atlantic, with an Autograph Letter Signed by Guy Vaughan, the President of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, to James F. Prince, "This letter is being written to you in Ridgewood New Jersey . . . the eve of Com. Byrd's proposed flight to Paris and the first authorized air mail trip across the Atlantic. I am handing it to Dick and asking him to mail it for me in Paris or London. So keep it when you receive it. There are few in existence." With a postscript written at the top of the letter, "Enclosed is a flag which you can frame. G.V." The flag, 48 stars, approximately 7x10 1/2 inches. The letter, 1 page, single 4to sheet; appears mounted. Framed together. not examined out of frame. Ridgewood, NJ, 20 June 1927
An interesting piece of aviation memorabilia from a little-known attempt. Byrd, having been beaten by Lindbergh in the race across the Atlantic, decided to attempt the flight with co-pilots Bert Acosta and Bernt Balchen, billing the attempt as the first authorized trans-Atlantic air mail flight. Taking off from New York on June 29 in his Fokker monoplane America and intending to land in Paris, Byrd was forced to crash land in the waters off the Normandy coast the following day.
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