Word: gronau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Customs House last week a large blond man in a blue suit and yachting cap stepped up to the chief clerk of the Collector of the Port, asked for a ship's manifest form. A moment later Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau took oath as master of the flying boat 0-1422, then bobbing at her moorings in the East River after a flight from northern Germany (TIME, Sept. 1). He registered too for his crew of three students from the Deutsches Verkehrs Fliegerschule (German commercial flying school of which he is chief): Eduard Zimmer, copilot; Franz Hack, mechanic...
Capt. von Gronau and his students reached Reykjavik, Iceland via the Faroe Islands in routine order, ostentatiously prepared to "fly back to Germany." But the captain refused to accept letters addressed to his homeland. An hour after their departure, Capt. von Gronau radioed to an astounded family, school and Transportation Ministry that he was headed west. Soon the plane reached Ivigtut, Greenland, pushed on to Cartwright Bay, Labrador, was forced down by rain at Queensport Harbor, N. S.; there waited for clear weather to fly to New York. Back at List, envious left-behind students crowded the inns, "Hoched"' their...
Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, chief of the school for commercial pilots at Warne-munde on the Baltic, kissed his hausfrau last week, remarked casually, "It is time for the annual practice flight to Iceland; I will be gone tomorrow with three of my students." Next day Frau von Gronau received a note: "I am leaving on a longer trip. Love to you and the children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane...