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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, 36, of Berlin, trans-Atlantic flying partner of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice (TIME, April 23); after a stomach operation; in Berlin. His career was brilliant, despite great physical odds. From boyhood his heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Capt. Francisco Jiminez-with Capt. Ignacio Iglesias, from Spain towards India. After 27 hours flying a sandstorm forced them down in Mesopotamia. Germany: Capt. Herman Koehl-in the Bremen from Ireland to Labrador. France: Capt. Dieudonné Costés-with Lieut. Commander Joseph Lebrix, on a 35,000-mile world aerial tour. Italy: Capt. Ferrarin. In Latin America the best flyers were: Venezuela, Capt. Manuel Rios, Ecuador, Capt. Luis Mantilla; Bolivia, Major Santalla Estrella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Best Flyers | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

When Baron Ehrenfried Guenther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James G. Fitzmaurice arrived in Manhattan after their east-west trans-Atlantic flight (TIME, May 7) they received a noisy, elaborate burst of greeting. Touched by this fanfare, impartially accorded by the U.S. to a two-thirds Germanic achievement, they donated the propeller of their monoplane Bremen to the projected Museum of the City of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Captain Herman Koehl, Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Major James Fitzmaurice, last week were honored by onetime royalty, snubbed by royalty's onetime subjects. Fresh from receptions in Bremen and Dublin, they flew to Doom, Holland, where Wilhelm II stood on the castle roof to wave them farewell with his one sound arm; thence to Cologne, Germany, where the city fathers, Kaiser-hating, failed to appoint a committee of welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Last week, New York city balanced its bank account, discovered it had spent $243,430 since January, 1926, for welcomes to Distinguished Guests. Expensive guests: Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin, $110,000; Koehl, Fitzmaurice, von Huene-feld, $60,000; Costes, Lebrix, $15,000. Official Welcomer Grover Whalen wrote Mayor Walker, diffidently: "It would seem opportune ... to raise the question as to how far ... the city should go." Recklessly, New York went ahead with plans to welcome "Lady Lindy," Pilot Stultz, Mechanic Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flyings | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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