It was intended that when the famous French airman, Captain Rene Fonck, left New York in his giant Sikorsky biplane, to fly across the Atlantic to Paris—the machine crashed at the start—he would take with him in specially sealed containers a hot dinner, which would be served in his honour when he reached the Hotel Crillon in Paris.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17995, 4 November 1926, Page 9
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