Seaplane in the Battery collection-new-york The Times article

The Times article

It created a profitable black market for mobsters

The glowing message didn't refer to impending disaster in the hardscrabble neighborhood

but then they spent eight years worrying for his life

when it only shaved 20 minutes from the regular time for the Twentieth Century Limited

Seaplane in the Battery collection-new-york The Times articleCaptain Wolfgang Von Gronau of Germany and three companions set their seaplane down at the Battery in New York after blazing a 4,670 mile trail across the Atlantic by way of the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Nova Scotia, spending 47 hours in the air. Von Gronau's 4,670 mile flight proved that airplanes were viable for traveling long distances. He later circumnavigated the globe in his Dornier Wal seaplane, starting and ending in Sylt, Germany.