
Mittelholzers Afrikaflug
Overview
On December 7, 1926, the pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer set off on an expedition that took him 77 days in a Dornier Merkur seaplane to Cape Town in South Africa, where he landed on February 21.
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Walter Mittelholzer
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