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        <title><![CDATA[L'Oiseau Blanc]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[All about the search for L'Oiseau Blanc, the white aeroplane flown over the Atlantic by French pilots Nungesser &amp; Coli, 15 days before Lindbergh, in May 1927]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[New organisation for communications:]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Angele Decre, Art Director, is joining the team to manage this blog and the visual identity. Patricia Lamy, Arc En Ciel Communication, stays in charge of Press Relations. contacts : Angèle Decré : +33 ( 0)1 47 71 16 53 - +33 ( 0)6 07 55 45 81 - angele@atelier-graphique.net... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The learnings of June 2012 campaign]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Lamy pour Bernard Decré]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Last day of work]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Lamy pour Bernard Decré]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Update, June 20th 2012]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Lamy pour Bernard Decré]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Press conference at Aero-Club de France on April 12th]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Bernard Decre and his team have the pleasure to announce that a Press Conference, giving all details of the next research campaign (scheduled June 10th to 30th) will take place at the Aero-Club de France, 6 rue Galilée, Paris 16, on Thursday April 12th,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Preparation of June 2012 campaign!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[L'Oiseau Blanc makes an official debut in Aviation History]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Happy new year ahead!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Time to remember...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A meeting with the French Minister of Culture!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[3rd research campaign for l'Oiseau Blanc - new pictures.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Preparation of next campaign]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[2011 research campaign forecast]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The sub-marine search for the engine will be located near the "Grappins" heights, As of today, we are still awaiting funds from different administrations, but we contacted the IFREMER who proposed a cooperation during their own campaign "Extraplac", next... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[L'Oiseau Blanc: March update]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Recent official contacts I had a meeting in December at L'Elysee, with the President's counselors who are following our research. In January, Mr Jacques Gérault, cabinet director of our Defence Ministry came to our conference at the Aero-Club de France,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Update on &quot;La recherche de l'Oiseau Blanc&quot; - Feb 2011.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Our last discoveries in the NARA archives in Washington DC confirm our hypothesis : Nungesser & Coli’s aeroplane, L’Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird) has crossed the Atlantic on May 8th & 9th 1927 and crashed very near Saint Pierre & Miquelon, the French... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Happy 2011 to all Nungesser &amp; Coli's friends!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Bernard Decre and the "Recherche de l'Oiseau Blanc" team wish you a very successful year. We will keep you posted, and hope the remains of the aircraft will be discovered this year. Thank you all for your support! ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Erik Lindbergh writes to Bernard Decre!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We publish here an e-mail which Erik LIndbergh wrote to Bernard Decre a few weeks ago. "Dear Bernard, I congratulate you on your excellent research! While I hesitate to speak for the rest of my family or the Lindbergh Foundation – it is safe to say that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nungesser &amp; Coli crossed the Atlantic, here is the proof!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After two research campaigns, Bernard Decre went to Washington DC in November, to search the Coast Guards archives. Local archivists were very helpful, as they begin to be very interested in this quest. They also want to know what happened to l'Oiseau... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Log Book: May 28th. Where is the Ravenel?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 08:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A fine day today: bright sun, cool air and light 15kts winds from N-W, allowing us to start working on the Ravenel search for the first time. This poor fishing boat and her 15 sailors have disappeared on Jan 26th 1962, near Terre Neuve, 18 km only from... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Log Book: May 26th]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 07:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Saint Pierre, May 26th, very late at night One day ahead of our planning, we have started the research this morning! The divers were super motivated, logistics OK, and the weather rather acceptable, although we had snow the night before. Water surface... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Logbook: May 24th, 2009.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The weather is still very rough: yesterday, 30 kts winds formed very hoarse seas. The regular boat from Terre Neuve had to stop her engines three times and got quite late in Saint Pierre. We had a shaky reconnaissance flight in a little twin engine aircraft,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Log book: May 22nd.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 15:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Saint Pierre, May 22nd 2009 The orthodromic route followed by modern aeroplanes is exactly the one followed by the Oiseau Blanc, with a South-East heading in the end to avoid the low pressure zone located North East of Terre Neuve, during the night of... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The movie]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[B. Decré has asked Louis Pascal Couvelaire, renowned filmmaker, who was always fascinated by history, to make a 52 minutes documentary film about Charles Nungesser and mysteries surrounding his death, co-produced by Films Actarus (Lerouge Ophelia) and... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The press conference]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A press conference has taken place May 14 at 6 pm at the Secretary of State for Overseas Territories in the presence of Yves Jégo. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Research expedition]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[From 20 May to 10 June 2009, with the assistance of the Secretariat of State for Overseas Territories, the Navy aboard the Fulmar, a patrol vessel based in St. Peter, the team of &quot;A Research de l&#39;Oiseau Blanc &quot;, conducted by Bernard Decré... ]]></description>
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