Second edition, revised and enriched with 101 unpublished illustrations and photographs. The “Matricule Des Oiseaux, in search of the two legendary planes of Adrienne Bolland”, is another way of telling the true story of the French pilot, then aged twenty-five years old, who was paid as a conveyor to sell two “Caudron” planes in South America in 1921. A world first. One of these two planes, shipped in pieces side by side in the Transatlantique Lutétia, will become world famous: it crossed the Andes on April 1, 1921, piloted by Adrienne Bolland, while its little brother will for its part know …hell. Between real glory and nightmarish limbo, what is the true story of these machines? Who did Adrienne Bolland meet on the distant South American continent? Finally, where are the two Caudron Type G.3s today? In "Le Matricule Des Oiseaux", the crossing of the Andes by the aviator (who also inspired Marc Lévy for one of his novels) is studied in detail and recreated with previously unpublished elements. Like a documentary, the scientific, the technical and the romantic are there. Coline Béry's works on the subject of Adrienne Bolland are all based on documents, archives and testimonies never before studied.
Never read either, this only text written entirely by the aviator for a French national magazine: epilogue to “Matricule Des Oiseaux”. A bibliography, an index, chronological markers, active links and notes complete the book.
