Show GERMAN WAR AGE Aviator Plans to Fly to America by- by the Orient i COLOGNE CoLOGNE Germany Sept 20 Otto AP-Otto Koennecke German aviator r who r gave up his plan lan to make a transatlantic flight to th the United Stat started do a long distance flight Far East at p P m. m m. m thIs afternoon The German aviators plan Is to fly to the United St States tes by way of the Or Orient ent making makin long hops in be be- be tween He took a running start of about no yards and then took the air flying in the direction of Wiesbaden and Munich but hIs first scheduled stop was Angora Turkey Lieutenant Koennecke was accompanIed ac- ac companIed by Count Solms Laubach Lauch Lau Lau- bach ch Ills financial supporter and Johannes Hermann Dessau radio expert of the Junkers works J enough gasoline gaso- gaso line for forty flying hours In the early morning the wind was Vas blowing about thirty eight miles an hour but this dropped to about thIrty at 1 o'clock and K Koan- Koan n- n to hop off leaving the ground at p. p m. m Lieutenant Koennecke with the Caspar biplane Germania pre pared over over a period of man many v months for lor a transatlantic flight from Germany Germany Ger- Ger many to the United States but gave up the plan when continued poor pool weather made it Impracticable Lieutenant Koennecke is an outstanding outstanding out out- standing German war ace having brought down two forty enemy planes He Is the chIef pilot of Lufthansa the German airways cor- cor The route to be followed by the Germania was not made public but it was said that the tentative route would follow that taken by the world the plane PrIde of DetroIt until Japan Is reached From there Lieutenant i Koennecke planned to take a northern route ute across the Pacific fic by way of the Aleutian islands and down the west coast of the UnIted StatEs StatE's to San Francisco |