after some time, this c-29 was sold to howard hughes, who remarkably burned it to... to hell with during the filming of the film hell's angels, by the way, the music for this film was dedicated to sikonsky; in september 1926 , a man came to him who was a pilot and dreamed, wanted, really wanted, to make the first flight across the ocean to europe. sekorsky was not exactly against it, but the plane was not ready for such a long flight, he insisted that... a tragedy happened, on takeoff, something happened to the engine, the plane crashed, fell into the enemy, there were two pilots, they managed to jump out, but both mechanics died, and this was widely advertised in the press, for a different person, perhaps, this led to sad consequences; he would never have been able to do something like that again, but you need to know sikorsky. despite this, on may 21 , 1927, the then little-known pilot charles linberg made the first transatlantic flight in history on a single -engine aircraft, he flew from new york to paris, it seems, well, one could assume that this same linberg rubbed sikorsky’s no