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, that included: the major Ramón Franco, the captain Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz, the sub-lieutenant Juan Manuel Durán, and the mechanic Pablo Rada.
Plus Ultra (aircraft)
Crew of the Plus Ultra
Plus Ultra in a museum in Luján, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Departing from Montevideo
The Dornier Do J Wal ("whale") is a twin-engine German flying boat of the 1920s designed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke. The Do J was designated the Do 16 by the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) under its aircraft designation system of 1933.
Dornier Do J Wal
N-24 landed on the ice at New Ålesund
Amundsen's Dornier Do J flying over the Oslofjord, 1925
A Wal at Slite, Gotland, on the Danzig-Stockholm route in 1925