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When she arrived in Manhattan last week, after a trip from Lake Constance, Switzerland, which has taken almost ten months, the monster Dornier flying boat DO-X (pronounced: dough-icks) stirred and surprised a city which had long ceased to be impatient for her arrival. The deep vehemence of her twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors beat down like a whole squadron of ordinary planes, stilling the clamor of streets and avenues as she passed over. People, peering from windows and sidewalks were amazed at a hull which is three winged Pullman sleepers in capacity. The shadow...
With the same general purpose as Cramer's, and practically the same route, Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau last week was making his second flight from Germany to the U. S. He flew a Dornier Wai flying boat and was accompanied by the same three youths who, as students, made up his crew last year when he astonished everyone by pressing on from Iceland (his supposed destination) to New York Harbor (TIME, Sept. 8). This year he had hoped to be the first airman to cross the Greenland ice cap, but Cramer accomplished that feat last fortnight...
...flying boat was the huge Dornier DO-X which took off from Rio de Janeiro for Miami as proudly as if she had not been nine months on the way from Switzerland. Her sponsors set a leisurely schedule of nine days for the northward flight, but a crankcase broke near Para, Brazil, and there the laggard sat down again to await a new motor from Natal...
...never attempted to become a pilot. A good friend of Dr. Hugo Eckener, she was the first paying woman passenger to cross the Atlantic in the Graf Zeppelin (Lady Grace Drummond Hay, Hearstling, preceded her but as a dead-head). In Manhattan last year she met Dr. Claude Dornier, offered $11,000 for passage in his huge flying boat for its much touted flight direct to the U. S. When the plane finally made its floundering way to South America, Dornier agents notified Mrs. Adams she might join it there...
Some comment was aroused last week by the report from Germany that Designer Dornier contemplated replacing the plane's twelve Curtiss Conqueror engines with six oil-burning engines now under development. To that the Curtiss-Wright Corp. promptly replied by displaying cablegrams of congratulation from Designer Dornier and Capt. Christiansen on the performance of the motors...