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Udet. Captains Ernst Udet and Gunther Plueschow shared the honor of being Germany's foremost airmen. Last month Capt. Plueschow died in a crash in South America (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week Germany came very close to losing her other idol. Having completed a motion picture job in Tanganyika, Africa, Capt. Udet headed back to Europe. Approaching Khartoum he was forced down in the miasmal Sudanese swamps. Luck was with him; he found and made a landing on one of the swamps' few patches of hard ground. There, days later, Capt. Campbell Black found him, was able to land beside...
More than 50 years ago, the late Dr. Ernst Abbe, optical expert of the Zeiss laboratories, decided that the wavelengths of visible light were too long to produce perfect small details. Zeiss scientists 25 years later constructed an instrument which utilized only short invisible ultraviolet. But the importance of this microscope was not realized. The few instruments made were regarded as curiosities...
...Austria the Fascist party (Heim-wehr) of Prince Ernst Rudiger von Star-hernberg, trounced at the last election (TIME, Nov. 17), failed last week to make good their threat to seize the State by armed power. Amid perfect calm Dr. Otto Ender, one more henchman of Austrian boss-politician Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, assumed the Chancellorship. He did not reappoint sword-rattling Prince von Starhemberg to His Highness' former post of Minister of Interior, appointed no Fascist whatever...
...General Aviation Corp. (dominated by General Motors), which was interested in no South American flight. Dr. Claude Dornier left the craft in La Coruna, Spain and hurried to Berlin, supposedly to ask the transportation ministry to back him in the new venture. Even before he arrived, Air Director Ernst Brandenburg made known that the answer would be: "No funds available." Definite information was scanty...
...Capt. Ernst Lehmann, second officer of the Graf, last week told the Berlin Shipbuilders' Association how to make money in the transatlantic Zeppelin business with four or five craft making crossings within three days or less. Capital required: $7,000,000 to $12,000,000 for landing stations; $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 for construction of ships. Annual expenditures: $6,660,000, or $37,000 for each of 180 annual trips. That cost could be fully met by mail and freight revenues, said Capt. Lehmann. Zeppelins carrying 40 passengers each would show profits...