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...there a cautious transatlantic flier, then his name is Capt. Hermann Koehl, pilot of this German expedition. In this same ship, the Bremen, he started for America late last summer, got over Ireland, found the hazards impossible to negotiate, and turned back home to try again some happier...
Capt. Hermann Koehl is a veteran pilot of the War, shot down twice by the French, taken prisoner the second time only to escape from a prison camp and make a tortuous way back to Germany. He is 40, married but childless, is old for a pilot. "Blind flying," night flying so essential to a transatlantic pilot, is his specialty...
Arthur Spindler, a mechanic, no longer young, was Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War and worships the air his master flies...
...Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested, fearful that the prohibition might extend to all students, as at Princeton. Started on a Junkers monoplane flight from Berlin westward to New York last week, Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron von Huenefeld and Mechanic Arthur Spindler reached Dublin, Ireland, whence they were to attempt a longer lurch...
...hour later the Bremen, bearing Pilots Loose and Koehl, Passenger von Huehnefeld passed over Hanover flying low. Hours passed...