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...Germans are the most impatient to get North Atlantic planes into regular service. Every week since 1934 Deutsche Lufthansa has been flying mail in fast Heinkel He. 705 from Berlin to Bathurst on the bulging coast of Africa, thence in Dornier DO-18s across the narrow South Atlantic to where South America bulges out to meet them at Natal, Brazil. Lufthansa one day will carry passengers on this route; until last year, when the Hindenburg burned up at Lakehurst, N. J., passengers could make the crossing any fortnight by Zeppelin...
...minutes stout young Bruno enjoyed being a world hero. Then suddenly a radio station of Italy's new "bosom friend" Germany made an announcement. With great satisfaction in a matter "particularly interesting," Berlin announced that Flight Captain Gerhard Nitschke, 32-year-old chief pilot of the Heinkel Airplane Works, had just flown a two-motored Heinkel-Benz airplane 621 miles, with a payload of 2,204 lb-(1,000 kg.) at a speed of 313 m.p.h.-46 m.p.h. faster than young Mussolini's record for the same weight at the same distance; leaving Bruno for the moment with...
Guernica, Rightist planes attacking Bilbao under General Emilio Mola were German Heinkel and Junkers bombers, proven inferior to the Russian planes called chato (snub-nosed) by the Loyalists. On the advice of German aviators and with the approval of Generalissimo Franco, General Mola ordered the stupidest move of his entire military career: a punitive air raid on Guernica, 12 miles northeast of Bilbao...