Atlantis (airplane)
Atlantis was the name of a Junkers W 33c aircraft . The specimen equipped as a seaplane with the aircraft registration D-1925 (serial number 2542) was supposed to fly to China for advertising purposes in 1932. The pilot Hans Bertram and the mechanic Adolf Klausmann were assigned to accompany the flight . They had to make an emergency landing in a storm in May 1932 on the route from Kupang to Darwin . They landed at Cape Lambert in the Kimberley region .
They were rescued after 53 days. The plane was recovered and brought back to Germany. In 1934 the machine was converted to the W 33c3e, with the L-5 engine (310 hp) being replaced by an L-5G with 340 hp. In March 1934 the D-1925 was used at DVS GmbH . Nothing is known about the further whereabouts. The left float, which the crew had used as a boat, was rediscovered in 1978.
literature
- Hans Bertram: Flight to Hell. My Australian adventure . Ullstein, 1933, 1995 edition: ISBN 3-548-23833-5
- Hans Bertram: Flight to Hell. Report from the Bertram Atlantis expedition. - From the Rhine to the Timor Sea. A fight of 53 days. Towards home. Drei Masken Verlag AG Berlin 1933. - With 177 illustrations in rotogravure. After photographs by A. von Lagorio, Hans Bertram. Including aerial photos, approved by the "RLM under No. 2977/37 / 1A or 2a." 204 pages of text, 2 folding plans of the flight route and movements after the emergency landing.
Movies
- Flight to Hell, 1977, director, screenplay with Hans Bertram
- Flight to Hell (Flight into hell), 1985, German-Australian series in six parts on the novel by Bertram.
- Emergency landing. in the ZDF series Höllenfahrten , 1999
Web links
- The Story of 'Atlantis' ( Memento from February 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- The Royal Australian Air Force Association: "Flight into Hell" - the flight to Australia in 1932
- Bertram and Klausmann's 'Atlantis' Seaplane Float
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Ries: Research on the German Aircraft Role, Part 1 , Verlag Dieter Hoffmann, 1977