Major Achievement, Adventure 90 Years Ago: Flight Around World With Mercedes-Benz 20-hp Aircraft Engine
August 20, 2018
August 20, 2018
STUTTGART, Germany, Aug. 20 -- Daimler issued the following news release:
It is the early morning on 11 August 1928. Friedrich Karl Freiherr Koenig von und zu Warthausen, barely 22 years old, takes off for his record-setting flight from Berlin-Tempelhof to Moscow. He has named his Klemm-Daimler light aircraft "Kamerad", the German word for "companion". "I circled the airfield twice to say good-bye and gain altitude against the strong wind at the same time. A . . .
It is the early morning on 11 August 1928. Friedrich Karl Freiherr Koenig von und zu Warthausen, barely 22 years old, takes off for his record-setting flight from Berlin-Tempelhof to Moscow. He has named his Klemm-Daimler light aircraft "Kamerad", the German word for "companion". "I circled the airfield twice to say good-bye and gain altitude against the strong wind at the same time. A . . .