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...flying boat was a twin-motored Dornier Wal* named Monsoon, of the type which Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau thrice flew from Germany to the U. S. Carrying a crew of four and a Luft Hansa director, the Monsoon flew up from British Gambia, headed west by south, caught the radio beacon of the Westphalen. Smack on her course after six hours the Monsoon picked up the floating airdrome in the middle of the Atlantic. Unlike an aircraft carrier, or a huge mid-ocean landing field such as the U. S. Public Works Administration has been asked to finance...
...prospective service. Since the surveying job is bigger than any single agency could afford, all interested parties have agreed to pool their findings. Thus into the pot go the charts made by Pan American, by the British Arctic Air Route Expedition and by Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale at the Azores, where France got exclusive operating privileges from Portugal. Imperial, of course, has practically automatic concessions in Bermuda, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador. Pan American has secured exclusive operating concessions in Iceland. From Denmark it got exclusive rights to survey Greenland...
...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...
Capt. von Gronau has expressed approval of the North Atlantic route for airmail service, but disapproval of the North Pacific route on which "the weather changes every 15 minutes and there is so much...