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...Claude Dornier stood in front of his airplane factory on the shore of Lake Constance, Switzerland one day last week, beaming with pride as one of his flying boats glided out of a soupy fog to a landing. This was no ordinary flying-boat, nor an ordinary flight. It was the sturdy Greenland Wai (Greenland Whale) completing a round-the-world trip begun 14 weeks ago, with stolid Wolfgang von Gronau and three aides as master and crew...
Died. Maurice Dornier, 44, co-designer (with his brother Claudius) of "Whale" flying boats; after a stomach operation; in Munich, Germany...
...originated at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt, where once was one of the world's biggest oyster farms and where now is the seaplane port of a commercial aviation school of which Capt. von Gronau is chief. All three flights were made in tandem-motored Dornier Wai flying boats. In 1930 it was a five-year-old craft which Amundsen had used in the Arctic and which now rests in a Munich museum. This year and last it was a newer ship, named Groenland-Wal( Greenland Whale). On each flight Capt. von Gronau took a crew...
Unwanted DO-X. Soon after her arrival in the U. S. last August the giant flying boat DO-X was beached at Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y. for overhaul of her twelve engines.. There she has remained while Dornier officials tried without success to interest U. S. groups in chartering the boat for coastwise service. Last week it was announced that the DO-X will be flown back to Germany in May. Meanwhile her commander, Capt. Franz Christiansen, and all but two members of her crew sailed to Germany for a vacation...
...outbreak of the War. in which he fought in German navy planes, was several times wounded. In 1919 he helped found Scadta Airways, in Colombia and Venezuela, was its technical adviser till 1925. Capt. Hammer's engineering ability, combined with his familiarity with South American Airways, caused the Dornier company to select him for the DO-X's passenger-carrying trip up the South American coast via Porto Rico, Cuba and Miami...