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We are leaving Saint Pierre with great faith in the future: we have made tremendous progress. First campaign in 2009: we had the help of the GPDA (French Navy) divers and a sonar. In 10 days of work, we have started to understand the field. If we had...

After 14 days, the 2012 search for L'Oiseau Blanc is over. The aircraft is still undiscovered, under the waters. But to understand the complexity of this task, it may be necessary to remind you, dear reader, that the research zone is very wide, and that...

We arrived in the French territory of Saint Pierre & Miquelon, South of Newfoundland, on June 10th and installed all our new material on our boat, the "Zephyr". We started with the search for the "Ravenel", a fishing boat disappered in 1962. We made a...

The success of an expedition is very much a matter of preparation! Bernard Decre , President of the association “A la Recherche de l’Oiseau Blanc” (The search for White Bird), Nun gesser & Coli aircraft, which ditched aft er having crossed the Atlantic...

This last Friday, February 2012, during the annual diner of the Aero-Club de France, Bernard Decré, President of the NGO " « A la Recherche de l’Oiseau Blanc », - The search for White Bird - has remitted officially the content of the research he conducted...

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! We would like to thank you all: our partners, our members, the Press, public and private administrations who have been helping us for the last 4 years. 2012 will be a very successful year: we are very proud to...

This November 11th, the French President said we have to remember our heroes, dead for their country... Did he think of Charles Nungesser, the "Ace of Aces" and his navigator Francois Coli? We salute the commitment of Patrick Gandil, French Civil Aviation...

Just before leaving Saint Pierre, we have found a document, published in the Parish bulletin in May-June 1927, which mentions that the noise of an aircraft engine might have been heard at Swift Current, "in the mountain", at 13 km West of Saint Pierre,...

Bernard is now in Saint Peter, here is some news. Pierre Lenormand, Chief of logistics, and I, have 3 objectives: Consult the Parish 1927 and 28 information bulletins to find new evidences, as the Governor's archives have partially been destroyed by several...

Pierre Lenormand and I are in Saint Pierre for about 10 days, in order to prepare the next session of research. The weather does not help: Continuous fog since the beginning of May. We are investigating a new area, with local fishermen, where we could...