An issue of La Science et La Vie from 1927 featuring the Fonck-Sikorski trimotor bi-plane. During the 1920s, René Fonck, an aviator and WW1 fighter ace, persuaded Igor Sikorsky to redesign the Sikorsky S.35 for the transatlantic race or Orteig Prize. But it was unlucky. The video gives the story.
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