Bert Fish Hassell at Colonial Village on June 3rd in 1969. In - TopicsExpress



          

Bert Fish Hassell at Colonial Village on June 3rd in 1969. In August of 1928 Bert & Co-Pilot Cramer tried for their second attempt to fly from Rockford to Stockholm, Sweden. They ran out of fuel at the Greenland Ice caps ( had to land 100 miles from base ) The Greater Rockford airplane endured 40 years of neglect on the Greenland ice cap and was returned to Rockford in 1969, only to wind up in Florida. The plane was returned to Rockford in 1975, restored by Rock Valley College and AeroCraft in Naperville and went on display in 1988 at Midway Village Museum. ((rrstar))
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:31:11 +0000

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