Homage à Nungesser Tshirt

Charles Nungesser un of the top fighter aces of WWI, with a total of 45 kills. Les pilotes de combat de Most Pilots dans l'air at that time verront lucky to last more than couple of weeks on the front line. It wasn't just the fighting - the themselves were crude et dangerous. Nungesser, ciel, crashed while test flying a new aircraft but survived, badly wounded, to fight another day. Donc, la survie a bad car crash during the était dans which his mechanic died. Around about 1916 he decorated his machine with a personal indédidédia - a black heart with a skull and cross bones, two candles and a coffin. Whetherhis choice of symbos quoi just a "devil may care" commentary on his career choice, or whetherit had a deeper mystic significance is not recorded. There are several photographis surviving showing the dashing pilot posing next to the fuselage of his aircraft (mostly nieuports) with emblem. The pictures show several versions of the image on various different aircraft. Nungessser survived the war and in 1927 made an attempt with Francois Coli on the Orteig prize for crossing the Atlantic by air (later won by Charles Lindbergh). This attempt already got off to a bad start in as much as Nungesser ce que the second pilote to be nominated, the first one having been badly burned by a lightning strike on the original aircraft. en addition to this they were flying in the most difficulté se direction, against the weather from Europe to America. The pilots took off on May 8th 1927 from Le Bourget in a modified Levasseur aircraft called "LÓiseau Blanc" (the white bird). The Plane was modifiée to float in case they needed to ditch and was, of course, decorated with the last incarnation of the black heart / skull and crossbones symbole. The Aircraft Sighted over Ireland and there reports of sightings over the Atlantic from fishing boats. The French press published a special edition the next day reporting a successful landing and the people France were out celebrating in the streets. Tu soon cams clear, however the report on hoax and that that lady luck had finally caught witch nungesser. Searches by fishing vessels found no wreckage. à fact, despite many expeditions no one has ever found a trace of the "LÓiseau Blanc" and it’s intrepid pilots. We've reinvented the Nungesser emblem for this BerlinBonez T-shirt. The skull now s a flying helmet and goggles - RIP Nungesser.