I am trying to find any pic's or press coverage of tha Spirit of J&B.
What is the Spirit of J&B you ask?
It was a 1938 Lockheed L-18 that was restored and then in June 18 1987 it with a crew of 4, Hubert Auriol, Patrick Fourticq, Henri Pescarolo and Art Powell flew it around the world in an attempt to break the record set by Howard Hughes in 1938 with an L-14. The project was a success.
The aircraft was ferried to France (Reims) first where the restoration began then eventually ended up in Creil ( IGN) for finale work. The aircraft made several promotional flights around Europe and Press conferences were held in each of these places. The around the world flight took off and landed during the last three days of the Paris Air Show 1987.
If anyone out there has any pictures taken of this craft during this period of time or knows of anyone who does...please PM me or post the pics here if you like.
Thank you/ Merci in advance.
