Parents from Illinois, he was born in Indiana before moving to Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Cramer was responsible for the opening of the flying field at Clarion, Pa.About 1920, he was residing on Sanford St., Bradford, McKean Co., single; listed as "aviator" with his widowed mother, Fanny; sister Josephine and brother, William.
He was aviator who became lost in Arctic sea on an attempted flight from the United States to Copenhagen. A bundle of papers was picked up in the vicinity of the Shetland Islands by a Dutch trawler on February 29, and returned them to Amsterdam, March 19, 1936.
The papers included Cramer's flying license, a letter to his mother [Fannie Cramer], and a description of the machine in which he made the fatal flight last August. Maps, navigation tables, and fragments of nautical instruments were in the package. Part of the letter to his mother was rendered illegible by the action of the water and partially in fragments.
Nothing in the package put any light on the disappearance of Parker. The log book had been carefully kept, though some entries were unintelligible.
Parker D. Cramer was heralded as a "mystery flyer" when he flew unobserved by the public from Detroit, Michigan, to Greenland and was discovered there as being in the midst of a transcontinental flight. The flight was sponsored by the Trans-American Air Lines to prove the practicability of flying to Europe over the arctic route. He and his mechanic, A. Pacquette, continued toward Copenhagen in easy stages and after being forced down near the Faroe Islands, took off again to return to Lerwick, on the Shetlands, due to a storm. Cramer and his aide took off from Lerwick August 9, and have since been missing. Their wrecked plane was found September 16.
He was aviator who became lost in Arctic sea on an attempted flight from the United States to Copenhagen. A bundle of papers was picked up in the vicinity of the Shetland Islands by a Dutch trawler on February 29, and returned them to Amsterdam, March 19, 1936.
The papers included Cramer's flying license, a letter to his mother [Fannie Cramer], and a description of the machine in which he made the fatal flight last August. Maps, navigation tables, and fragments of nautical instruments were in the package. Part of the letter to his mother was rendered illegible by the action of the water and partially in fragments.
Nothing in the package put any light on the disappearance of Parker. The log book had been carefully kept, though some entries were unintelligible.
Parker D. Cramer was heralded as a "mystery flyer" when he flew unobserved by the public from Detroit, Michigan, to Greenland and was discovered there as being in the midst of a transcontinental flight. The flight was sponsored by the Trans-American Air Lines to prove the practicability of flying to Europe over the arctic route. He and his mechanic, A. Pacquette, continued toward Copenhagen in easy stages and after being forced down near the Faroe Islands, took off again to return to Lerwick, on the Shetlands, due to a storm. Cramer and his aide took off from Lerwick August 9, and have since been missing. Their wrecked plane was found September 16.
Parents from Illinois, he was born in Indiana before moving to Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Cramer was responsible for the opening of the flying field at Clarion, Pa.About 1920, he was residing on Sanford St., Bradford, McKean Co., single; listed as "aviator" with his widowed mother, Fanny; sister Josephine and brother, William.
He was aviator who became lost in Arctic sea on an attempted flight from the United States to Copenhagen. A bundle of papers was picked up in the vicinity of the Shetland Islands by a Dutch trawler on February 29, and returned them to Amsterdam, March 19, 1936.
The papers included Cramer's flying license, a letter to his mother [Fannie Cramer], and a description of the machine in which he made the fatal flight last August. Maps, navigation tables, and fragments of nautical instruments were in the package. Part of the letter to his mother was rendered illegible by the action of the water and partially in fragments.
Nothing in the package put any light on the disappearance of Parker. The log book had been carefully kept, though some entries were unintelligible.
Parker D. Cramer was heralded as a "mystery flyer" when he flew unobserved by the public from Detroit, Michigan, to Greenland and was discovered there as being in the midst of a transcontinental flight. The flight was sponsored by the Trans-American Air Lines to prove the practicability of flying to Europe over the arctic route. He and his mechanic, A. Pacquette, continued toward Copenhagen in easy stages and after being forced down near the Faroe Islands, took off again to return to Lerwick, on the Shetlands, due to a storm. Cramer and his aide took off from Lerwick August 9, and have since been missing. Their wrecked plane was found September 16.
He was aviator who became lost in Arctic sea on an attempted flight from the United States to Copenhagen. A bundle of papers was picked up in the vicinity of the Shetland Islands by a Dutch trawler on February 29, and returned them to Amsterdam, March 19, 1936.
The papers included Cramer's flying license, a letter to his mother [Fannie Cramer], and a description of the machine in which he made the fatal flight last August. Maps, navigation tables, and fragments of nautical instruments were in the package. Part of the letter to his mother was rendered illegible by the action of the water and partially in fragments.
Nothing in the package put any light on the disappearance of Parker. The log book had been carefully kept, though some entries were unintelligible.
Parker D. Cramer was heralded as a "mystery flyer" when he flew unobserved by the public from Detroit, Michigan, to Greenland and was discovered there as being in the midst of a transcontinental flight. The flight was sponsored by the Trans-American Air Lines to prove the practicability of flying to Europe over the arctic route. He and his mechanic, A. Pacquette, continued toward Copenhagen in easy stages and after being forced down near the Faroe Islands, took off again to return to Lerwick, on the Shetlands, due to a storm. Cramer and his aide took off from Lerwick August 9, and have since been missing. Their wrecked plane was found September 16.
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