Wolfgang von Gronau: the global whale
after his North Atlantic Crossing (todays new Bushtrip with the Dornier Whale) W.v.G. circumnavigated the world in the same Dornier Wal - July 1932 in 126 days, 44.000km, 52 stages.
Wolfgang von Gronau - Wikipedia
Iceland fjord:
He was dodging terrible weather, engine troubles (had to ditch in the open sea of the Bay of Bengal, and was towed by passenger steamer into Rangoon…) - but always had a great welcome and too many parties.
Aleuts:
I have chopped up the trip into 7 stages, created with SU7 where you couldn’t start directly from the waves to there are avatar airports nearby to teleport from(not sure yet about improvements in SU8…).
His stopovers can be deducted from this pic from my yellowing copy of his book “Weltflieger”, some of my WPs are detours he did take (due to storms, he also prefered to fly over water as he had no amphibian…)
Luckily he was one of the first to have a long range radio:
here come the first 3 stages:
Germany to Labrador:
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on to Milwaukee
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to Prince Rupert
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