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...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...
...world knows the Greenland Wai took off from the North Sea Island of Sylt, site of Capt. von Gronau's seaplane school, traversed without incident the northern passage via Iceland and Greenland to Montreal. Thenceforth she made her easy way across part of the U. S., pausing at Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee. North of Winnipeg the Whale rested on Cormorant Lake while her crew-rested, fished. Thence on to British Columbia, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and along the stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands and Kuriles to Tokyo...
...insisted on his being a good student. With a scientific and mathematical bent. Fridtjof chose zoology as his specialty. That and his love of adventure led him into the Arctic. At 21 he made his first voyage, with the sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure, he set off in 1893 on the three-year trip he described later in Farthest North. Leaving the From...
...their Familia Volano, a big black-&-silver Sikorsky amphibian, the Hutchin-sons-George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6-and a crew of four had hopped by easy stages to Labrador (TIME, Sept. 5), thence across Davis Strait to Greenland and down the coast to Julian-ehaab. Hopping off from there to the booming salute of a Danish warship, Pilot Hutchinson skirted the southern tip of the great island, headed north for Angmagsa-lik. His itinerary called for successive hops to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, England, Rome...
...hours after the Hutchinson "flying family" had been picked up on the coast of Greenland last week (see col. 2), a big Wasp-powered Bellanca monoplane lumbered across Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. and roared off for Italy. It carried...