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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: A famous Jewish pilot's vintage plane could be scrapped. This man is on a mission to save it
Description: Louis Helbig, of Sydney, N.S., has been racing against time trying to find a solution and a good home for what he describes as the Trans-Atlantic Luscombe. The vintage aircraft, built in 1948, was once owned by a famous Jewish watchmaker named Peter Gluckmann, who had fled Hitler's Germany in 1939 to England as teenager with his family. He then who moved to the U.S. after the Holocaust, learned to fly, and in 1953, became the first person to ever successfully cross the North Atlantic, solo, in such a tiny plane.
Gluckmann attempted the voyage because he wanted to see...