 Naval aviators [[Wooster and Davis|Noel Davis]] and [[Wooster and Davis|Stanton H. Wooster]] were killed at [[Langley Air Force Base|Langley Field]], Virginia on , 1927, while testing their [[Keystone Pathfinder]].On French war heroes [[Charles Nungesser]] and [[François Coli]] departed [[Paris – Le Bourget Airport]] in the [[Levasseur PL.2|Levasseur PL 8]] seaplane "[[The White Bird|L'Oiseau Blanc]]"; they disappeared somewhere in the Atlantic after last being seen crossing the west coast of [[Ireland]].American air racer [[Clarence Duncan Chamberlin|Clarence D. Chamberlin]] and [[Arctic]] explorer [[Richard E. Byrd]] were also in the race.