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...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 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...
From Montreal last week the Groenland-Wal flew to Ottawa, headed toward Detroit. She arrived there at the end of a towrope after being forced down on Lake St. Clair by a broken pump. After visiting Chicago, the ship's next destination was the Pacific Coast. Despite some-what half-hearted denials by Capt. von Gronau, it appeared certain that he would carry on along the approximate route flown last year by the Lindberghs from Alaska to Siberia, the Kuvile Islands, Tokyo, that he would continue around the world to home...
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