Word: zimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...master of the flying boat 0-1422, then bobbing at her moorings in the East River after a flight from northern Germany (TIME, Sept. 1). He registered too for his crew of three students from the Deutsches Verkehrs Fliegerschule (German commercial flying school of which he is chief): Eduard Zimmer, copilot; Franz Hack, mechanic; Fritz Albrecht, radioman...
Said Capt. von Gronau in the New York Times: "I had planned this flight [via Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Canada] for two years, but I did not tell Zimmer and Franz and Fritz until we reached Iceland because I did not wish the authorities to find out. . . . They would have stopped me because of the risk and other things, and so I just went. One must have some daring if one is to live one's dreams...
...time for the annual practice flight to Iceland; I will be gone tomorrow with three of my students." Next day Frau von Gronau received a note: "I am leaving on a longer trip. Love to you and the children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane, a two-motored Dornier-Wal flying boat, was the same used by Roald Amundsen in his attempted Polar flight of 1925, and by Capt. Frank Courtney...