Wooster and Davis

Competitors for the prize were French World War One ace Rene Fonck and his crew of three, USN Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, Clarence Chamberlain with plane owner Charles Levine, and a young airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh.

On the Paris side of the Atlantic their competitors were another World War One French ace, Charles Nungesser, and his navigator Francois Coli.

Wooster and Davis flew a Keystone Pathfinder (N-X179) plane called American Legion.

Newsreel footage taken of the men and their plane are extant and record the duo's goings-on during that spring of 1927.

While testing with a heavy load of gas on April 26, 1927, the Pathfinder lost altitude and crashed on its nose in Virginia, killing both men.