Word: schildhauer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Dornier, Claude and Maurice, vigorously denied. But finally they did concede that bad weather on the Azores-Bermuda route had upset their plan to fly to New York. Instead, they planned to send the DO-X across the South Atlantic to Brazil. At that juncture Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, U. S. copilot, resigned. He had been loaned for the flight by Dornier Corp. of America, subsidiary of General Aviation Corp. (dominated by General Motors), which was interested in no South American flight. Dr. Claude Dornier left the craft in La Coruna, Spain and hurried to Berlin, supposedly...
...Lieut. Schildhauer's resignation gave impetus to rumors in Manhattan that General Motors was fast losing interest in the idea of manufacturing Dornier boats in the U. S. General Motors reputedly agreed to pay $250,000 to Dr. Dornier for U. S. rights (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929) but did not go beyond considering factory sites. Two four-motored Dornier super-Wals were imported and sold to Stout D & C Lines for use on the Great Lakes. But the Department of Commerce, which requires similar performance of seaplanes and land-planes, found fault with the Dornier take-offs and landings...
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