Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Aviation history is populated with tales of success.

There was the right brother's fabled first flight to Charles Limberg's solo trip across

the Atlantic.

Every triumph pushed the limits of what we thought was possible.

Limberg may have been the first to complete a transatlantic flight on his own, but there

were others who had attempted it before him.

Two pilots, John Alcock of England and Arthur Brown of Scotland, managed to fly their

Vickers Vimy Bommer from Canada to Ireland in 1919.

For some though, that distance wasn't far enough.

That same year a New York hotel owner named Raymond Ortee came up with a contest.

He offered $25,000 to anyone who could fly nonstop from New York City to Paris within

the next five years.

Well, the five years came and went without a winner, although many did try.

Pressua Coulier from France certainly did, though it hadn't gone as planned.

Coulier had been a pilot during World War I and with his buddy Paul Terescan, the two

set out to win the Orte prize.

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