François Coli

François Coli ( born June 5, 1881 in Marseille, † missing on May 8, 1927 at the Atlantic or North America ) was a French aviation pioneer. In World War coli was severely wounded and lost his right eye. In 1919 he succeeded his plane twice the crossing of the Mediterranean, setting a new distance record.

Coli died while trying, along with Charles Nungesser in the biplane L' Oiseau Blanc ( White Bird ), the Atlantic non-stop from Paris to New York to cross it and to collect the Orteig price.

The aircraft was last seen on May 8 of in 1927 with Etretat in Normandy, where today a monument and a museum worthy of the event. Maybe Nungesser and Coli reached the North American continent in Canada and then crashed in the hills of the U.S. state of Maine.

A few days later, on May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh succeeded his plane Spirit of St. Louis, the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris, and he won so the Orteig price.

In the Canadian feature film The Ghost Pilots - Flight to the Future ( 1999) are the spirits of Francois Coli and Charles Nungesser doomed to the crash, in which they lost their lives, to experience again and again, freeing up two children from this curse.