Waspie_Dwarf Posted September 8, 2013 #1 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Polar Mission – Tracing the Last Movements of the 'Soviet Lindbergh' MOSCOW, September 8, (Alexandra Odynova, RIA Novosti) – On August 12, 1937, Soviet pilot Sigizmund Levanevsky, known in America as "the Soviet Lindbergh," and his five compatriots took off from Moscow in massive plane bound for the United States via the North Pole in a highly risky flight.A day later, the plane veered off course. It vanished somewhere in the Arctic, and for decades this story has been one of the great, unsolved mysteries of aviation history. Earlier this week, over seventy years since takeoff, a group of Russian and American enthusiasts are on the verge of solving the tragedy of the first cargo-passenger flight from Moscow to Alaska. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersonFromPorlock Posted September 10, 2013 #2 Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) Interesting, and I look forward to further developments. But I have my doubts that the plane "fell off the radar" in 1937. Incidentally, the plane: http://en.wikipedia....khovitinov_DB-A Edited September 10, 2013 by PersonFromPorlock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolguy Posted September 12, 2013 #3 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Cool story frist I have heard of it,can't Waite to hear more of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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