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...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...
...most respects Capt. von Gronau's latest passage resembled those of 1930 (Chicago via New York Harbor) and 1931 (Chicago via Canada). All originated at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt, where once was one of the world's biggest oyster farms and where now is the seaplane port of a commercial aviation school of which Capt. von 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...
Most important difference was that while Capt. von Gronau had to slip furtively westward from Iceland in 1930 without even confiding his destination to his wife or crew, for fear his government would forbid the venture, he now has government sponsorship for surveying the intercontinental route...
While routes were being discussed, proponents of the North Atlantic route were heavily outnumbered, partly because those who had flown it were not all eager to do it again. Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau (North Sea-U. S. 1930, 1931) was enthusiastic over the Iceland-Greenland route, as was Navigator Gatty; but Capt Hermann Koehl (Ireland-Greeneley Island 1928) wanted no more of that part of the ocean. Neither did Jean Assolant (Maine-Spain...
Intercontinental. The Gronland-Wal with Captain Wolfgang von Gronau and three companions reached Chicago, its goal from Germany via the Arctic...