Word: gronau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passage to Europe via Greenland and Iceland. Last week P. A. A. acquired another strategic outpost-Alaskan Airways, comprising 2,500 mi. of lines. The future was too obscure to be read in detail but any observer could make plausible guesses merely on the strength of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau's recent predictions of airplane service between Europe and the Orient via the Northern Passage, Canada, northern U. S., the Pacific Coast, the Kuriles (TIME, Aug. 8). Alaskan Airways was the property of potent Aviation Corp. (American Airways holding company) which holds a 12% interest...
...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...
Wolfgang von Gronau, 39, is much less a "flyer," in the romantic sense of the word, than an aerial mariner, stolid, painstaking, plodding. He did not want to become a pilot. His lack of interest in aviation became definite fear when his brother, a War aviator, was shot down and killed. But shortly after that when he was transferred from the navy to the air service, he had to go. At first he tried to deceive his mother by telling her he was to go aboard a Zeppelin, which was supposed to be safer than an airplane. But when...
Twice von Gronau was shot down unhurt. He was ultimately promoted to a safe headquarters job. After the War he returned to East Prussia to farm the lands of his father. General Hans H. K. von Gronau, Commander of the 41st Reserve Corps at the Battle of the Marne. Under the drudgery of farming he found himself wanting to get into the air again. He hired a manager for the farm, a plane for himself, began to pile up hours. After operating a small school of his own, he got himself appointed director of the government-subsidized Fliegerschule at Warnemeunde...
...lives at Warnemeunde with his wife Eisner, and three children, Marie Louise, 12, Hans Albert, 10, Hans Joachim, 3. When badgered by newsmen after her husband's flights, Frau von Gronau has her telephone disconnected...