“At the end of his fuel, hopelessly lost in bad weather but still searching for the Hawaiian Islands, Ulm had sent out his last and typically laconic message: ‘We are now landing in the sea. Please come and pick us out.’ Tragically – despite a massive air and sea search – they were not found.”

Charles Ulm and his crew of two others were flying from San Francisco to Honolulu in the 1930s; Gordon Taylor, The Sky Beyond (New York: Ballantine, 1970), 60, n.