Orteig Prize
The Orteig Prize (English. Orteig Prize ) was donated in 1919 by the New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig , who came from France . The prize money of 25,000 US dollars (today's value around 369,000 US dollars) should go to the first person to fly non-stop from New York to Paris or the other way around .
Before the Charles Lindbergh Prize could be won with his Spirit of St. Louis aircraft , unsuccessful attempts were made:
- On September 21, 1926, when taking off from Roosevelt Field for a west-east crossing, the chassis of the overloaded Sikorsky S-35 of aircraft engineer Igor Ivanovich Sikorski broke . From the four-person crew Fonck (pilot), Curtin (copilot), Clavier (radio operator), Islamoff (mechanic), Clavier and Islamoff were killed.
- On April 16, 1927, the Fokker C-2 from Fokker , which had been financed by Richard Evelyn Byrd , overturned on landing at Roosevelt Field from a test flight .
- On May 8, 1927, Nungesser and Coli started in Le Bourget with their Levasseur PL.8 called L'Oiseau Blanc . The whereabouts of the crew and the machine are unclear.
After Lindbergh's successful flight on May 20-21 May 1927, public interest in aviation and the possibility of traveling as a passenger in an airplane rose suddenly .
literature
- Bak, Richard: The Big Jump - Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race . John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2011, ISBN 978-0-471-47752-5 .
- Bill Bryson: Summer 1927 . 1st edition. W. Goldmann, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-30123-2 .
See also
Web links
- Raymond Orteig- $ 25,000 prize
- The Trans-Atlantic Flight of the 'America'
- Charles Lindbergh timeline
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bryson, Summer 1927 , pp. 20ff
- ↑ Bryson, Summer 1927 , pp. 24ff