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...newsmen ranged about him would quit trying to make him a hero. He wished they would not refer to his arrival that day by flying boat from Germany as a "transatlantic flight." He wished they would not ask him lor the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would leave so he might go to bed. As if to persuade them that he really was not worth so much fuss, he said...
...guess I'm getting old. . . . Yes?I lack nerve. Flying over the Greenland ice cap this year, ... as I looked down on it, I found myself getting afraid. When I came across there before it didn't bother me a bit." Then Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau rose, clicked his heels, bowed his visitors out, went to sleep while Montreal Teutons waited hopefully to toast him at a midnight supper...
...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 of three from his school. Students Franz Hack and Fritz Albrecht as mechanic and radioman made all three flights; this year Teacher Ghert von Roth replaced Student Eduard Zimmer as copilot. All flights were characterized by methodical planning, absence...
...apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...
Thus far the Danish Government has refused to grant any operating concession in Greenland. But it will entertain proposals when a precise plan is submitted by Pan American on the basis of the expeditions' data...