Dornier Do J Wal
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The Dornier Do J Wal is a twin-engine German flying boat of the 1920s designed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke and manufactured in five countries. The Do J was designated the Do 16 by the Reich Air Ministry
A Spanish Dornier Do J "Plus Ultra" in Luján Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
N-24 landed on the ice at Ny Ålesund
Amundsen's Dornier Do J flying over the Oslofjord, 1925
A Wal at Slite, Gotland, on the Danzig-Stockholm route in 1925
Plus Ultra (aircraft)
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Plus Ultra is a Dornier Do J flying boat which completed the first transatlantic flight between Spain and South America in January 1926 with a crew of Spanish aviators which included Major Ramón Franc
Dornier Do J Wal
…the "Grönland Wal" (Greenland Whale) on a round-the-world flight. In 1926 the captain Ramón Franco became a national Spanish hero when he piloted the Plus Ultra on a trans-Atlantic flight, following the route pioneered by Portuguese aviators Artur de Sacadura Cabral and Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho in the first…
Plus Ultra before departing Palos de la Frontera, Spain
Crew of the Plus Ultra
Departing from Montevideo