Elly Beinhorn cont.- the first African Queen
1931 E.B. flew to Africa with a 40 HP (!) Klemm 25 (on which there are MSFS news: An early look into Classics Hangar's first project for MSFS: the Klemm L25 - MSFS Addons )
pic from the Klemm fanpage: Beinhorn, Elly | (wordpress.com)
a. On the first stages from Berlin to Morocco she survived an emergency landing in a snow storm at the Black Forest:
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b. Next stages were along the coast to Guinea, working there as an Aero Scout for some anthropologists, dodging locust swarms and killer ants in the cockpit:
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c. Disaster struck on the way home. She crash landed near Tombouctou, was rescued by Tuareg and evacuated to Casablance by the French air force.
The PLN has the crash site as a WP - and the planned route to Oran (if you want to try, remember: dead reconning over the Sahara with 40HP!)
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d. Her sponsors did send a plane piloted by WW1 & WW2 (!) ace “Uncle Theo” (Theo Osterkamp - Wikipedia) to fly home together.
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Niger crash area:
Upon arrival in Germany she became a national celebrity, making the world tour in 1932 possible (see above).