Word: dessau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outsider to pilot Claude Dornier's 12-motored flying boat, the DO-X (TIME, Nov. 25), George King, "lone wolf of Alaska," tuned the enthusiasm to higher pitch last week by proposing a flight, in a Junkers plane similar to the Atlantic flying Bremen (TIME, April 23, 1928), from Dessau, Germany, across Siberia, Alaska, Canada, to New York...
...previous record was 52 hr. 22 min., 31 sec., held by the German aviators Johann Risticz and Cornelius Edzard at Dessau, Germany, in July 1927-in the Europa, sistership of the Bremen...
...Dessau flying field...
Europa and the Bremen, low-winged monoplanes that looked like thick prehistoric lizards received their final tuning up. They received mail for the U. S., $18,000 worth of which (value of the stamps) had been sent to the Dessau post office, much of it from stamp collectors addressing U. S. friends asking that the cancelled stamps be returned. Next the pilots loaded in rations prepared by their good fraus: sausage, chocolate, zwieback, hard-boiled eggs, bananas, lemons, orange juice, tea. A bottle of fine brandy was rejected as too heavy. Officials clapped them on the backs; fraus kissed them...
After 22 hours, out of the dense fog that now covered most of Germany the Bremen coasted to earth again back in Dessau. It too had been repulsed by a wall of blackness. Said Pilot Loose: "Nobody could fly in that weather. . . ." Herr Professor Hermann Junkers, grieving but not disconsolate, rushed the preparation of a third plane...