Category:ETH-BIB Mittelholzer-Lake Chad flight 1930-1931

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English: The Chad Sea Flight, December 2nd, 1930-January 23rd, 1931. Walter Mittelholzer, tour operator.

Like the Kilimanjaro flight, the Lake Chad flight is a tourist flight paid for by the client, this time for the American businessman and adventurer Kingsley Macomber. The flight with a three-engine Fokker F-VIIb-3m of the Swiss airline Ad Astra Aero took the tour company from Zurich via Spain, Morocco via the Atlas to the Sahara. After crossing it, the flight continued over the Niger to Senegal. From there we finally went back north of the African coast to Spain and France towards Switzerland. He diligently takes photographs on the ground and from the air while his guest enjoys the journey.

To plan the expedition, Mittelholzer called in the British hunter George Wood, who had been working in Africa for years. After the entry permit had been received from the Italian, French, English and Egyptian authorities and the stopover points with oil and petrol supplies had been organized, we could get started. The aircraft chosen, a Fokker F-VIIb named Switzerland III, had been in service with the Swiss airline Ad Astra Aero in Zurich since the spring of 1929. Mittelholzer started on December 15, 1929 together with Alfred Künzle from Dübendorf and flew via Catania, Benghasi, Cairo, Khartoum and Mongalla to Nairobi. From there and a camp that had been specially set up by an English company 240 kilometers southwest of Nairobi, the hunting party undertook fourteen excursion flights, including to Mount Kenya (first flight over), the Serengeti and Kilimanjaro with its highest peak Kibo (first flight over ). Hunting trips were also undertaken by car, for example on a “dewy January morning”:

See https://blogt.ethz.ch/digital-collections/en/2017/02/03/walter-mittelholzer-als-touristikunternehmer/

Countries crossed, 33 stopping places :

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