Weltflug.tv

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Television series
German title Weltflug.tv - The world tour with a gyroplane
Country of production Germany
year 2012
length 205 minutes
production cross-frontier GmbH
occupation
  • Andreas Stütz
  • Melanie Stütz

Weltflug.tv - The world tour with gyroplane is a five-part documentary series by Melanie & Andreas Stütz. Weltflug - Two high-flyers on five continents is a book by Andreas Stütz.

content

Blu-ray, DVD and book document the flight of Melanie and Andreas Stütz, which began in April 2009, in 18 months and 100,000 kilometers around the world. The main stops on the route were:

The Way of St. James (Europe), the Okavango Delta, the Kalahari and the Namib Desert (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia), the Outback & the Tasman Sea (Australia), Tauranga via Wellington to Queenstown (New Zealand), Seattle via San Francisco to Los Angeles (USA), Buenos Aires via Iguaçu to Rio de Janeiro (South America).

The idea for the real adventure comes from the book " Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt " by Boy Lornsen , a well-known children's book author.

As a little girl in the GDR, Melanie dreamed of unlimited travel. As a young boy in West Germany, Andreas devoured the children's TV series “ Robbi, Tobbi and the Fliewatüüt ”. His childhood dream was to travel the world like Tobbi in a vehicle that can fly (“Flie”), water (“wa”) and drive like a car (“tüüt”). Later in the James Bond film " You Only Live Twice " the couple saw an airplane that resembles the Fliewatüüt. Sean Connery triumphed in Japan with a kind of bonsai helicopter, the so-called gyrocopter or gyroplane "Little Nellie", against four attack helicopters. The gyroplane looked like a small helicopter, but took off and landed like an airplane. Melanie and Andreas learned to fly before they had children of their own and would support their dreams. They bought their own gyroplane and started their first trip around the world with a gyroplane, with stages in Europe, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, the USA and South America.

Until it was launched, such a project with the gyroplane , a flying sports device built for short distances, was considered impossible.

Melanie and Andreas Stütz used the trip to draw attention to the work of the terre des hommes children's aid organization . They visited children in terre des hommes projects in South Africa, India, Thailand, Peru and Bolivia and asked children and adults about their childhood dreams . In conversations with the carers and the children, the couple learned that childhood dreams can be an important key to development in life. Children who have a dream for their life have strong motivation to overcome adversity and adversity. With the realization of their world flight Melanie and Andreas encourage children and adults to pursue their dreams across borders. Part of the proceeds from the book and film goes directly to terre des hommes' children's aid.

film records

Melanie and Andreas Stütz were equipped with two full HD cameras. They used the cameras to film the flight scenes in the cockpit, but were also filmed from the ground and from other aircraft during the flight.

DVD / Blu-ray

The DVD and Blu-ray editions appeared in 2012. Five DVDs and Blu-rays contain five episodes. The individual episodes are titled; they describe the following sections of the journey

  • Episode 1: Europe
  • Episode 2: Africa
  • Episode 3: Australia & New Zealand
  • Episode 4: USA
  • Episode 5: South America

The footage was dubbed in German and English. Subtitles are available in German and English. The broadcasters ARD , ZDF-Mittagsmagazin and RTL showed excerpts of the Weltflug.tv film material as part of the editorial coverage of the adventure.

Gyroplane

Andreas and Melanie Stütz initially flew in a Xenon gyroplane from Celier Aviation.

After a successful European and African adventure, the German world market leader for gyroplanes, the company AutoGyro from Hildesheim, decided to support the adventure with MTOsport gyrocopes in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and South America.

Challenges

Europe

In France, during a dramatic flight through a storm, they saved themselves in the middle of a strictly forbidden military exclusion zone. When they wanted to cross the Pyrenees from France to Spain, they threatened to crash against a cloud-shrouded rock face. At the last moment a gap in the clouds opened and they could fly over the mountains. On the Spanish Atlantic coast, they narrowly escaped a thunderstorm system in which they were encircled.

Africa

Shortly before the start of their flight, the gyroplane was badly damaged by another pilot at an air show. There wasn't enough time left for repairs. The adventure seemed to end before it began. Two solidary South African pilots offered to take them on the tour. With now two camera perspectives, it was a breathtaking low flight over the fantastic animal world of Africa, over herds of elephants, zebra and water buffalo. A firework of colors opened up to them from above, with the lush green of the Okavango Delta, the snow white of the Makgadikgadi salt lakes, the gold of the billowing elephant grass reaching to the horizon and the fiery red of the highest sand dunes in the world, of Sossusvlei . When Melanie and Andreas an engine failure forced them to land on a gravel road in the Namib desert, a special unit of the Namibian military was alerted. Within 15 minutes, the two found themselves surrounded by numerous armed security forces. Two hours before the end of the tour, the rotor's drive shaft broke. They could start the rotor by hand and made it to the destination Springs in Johannesburg.

Australia & New Zealand

The rejection of the European medical certificate and the lack of insurance for the gyroplane seemed to let the adventure fail for weeks. During this time they lived in a small discarded trailer in the middle of the Australian bush. In close proximity to kangaroos , koalas and cockatoos , the two experienced their Australian dream time. They managed to solve the formal problems and still take off. The flight led over the eucalyptus forests of the Dividing Range to the east coast and from there at a low level directly over the roaring surf along the coast towards Cairns . Because of an approaching cyclone , the two were finally stuck on the coast in a storm and heavy rain and were only able to continue their journey with the gyroplane in New Zealand. There the pilot couple flew in a formation with five local gyroplanes and 60 other, in some cases unique, historical aircraft on the "New Zealand Air Safari". Her gyroplane first traveled over 5,000 kilometers to the north, then to the extreme south of the “ Lord of the Rings ” islands and back again. During their approach to Wellington International Airport , they temporarily lost control of the gyroplane in severe turbulence. It reared up like a rowboat in rough seas. Despite the extreme stress, they kept their cool and landed safely in the capital of New Zealand. To get from the North to the South Island, they had to travel 30 kilometers across the open sea via the Cook Strait . During one of the last landings near Omaka in New Zealand, a gust of wind overturned the gyroplane.

United States

In a dramatic bad weather flight they made it through the foothills of the cascades to the Pacific coast, at Gold Beach . They followed the Oregon coast south to the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco , California. Half Moon Bay airfield near San Francisco was completely covered with clouds. In your type of aircraft, in visual flight in clouds , you lose control of the aircraft within seconds if there is no longer any visibility. However, they had hardly any fuel left and alternative airports were no longer accessible. So they decided to make a daring approach to Half Moon Bay airfield , which was completely covered with clouds. In San Francisco they met with Karl-Heinz Johannsmeier, who had made it from a Stasi prisoner in the GDR to a multi-millionaire in the USA. After asking him about his recipe for success and his dreams on his estate, they continued their adventure. They flew over the Hollywood dream factory to their final airport near Los Angeles.

South America

After visiting seven different authorities in Buenos Aires and with a personal letter from the President of the Argentine Civil Aviation Authority, Melanie and Andreas managed to create the conditions for a take-off in Argentina. A 70-year-old truck, ready for scrap, transported the gyroplane to the airfield and promptly got stuck in the mud shortly before the hangar. In an elaborate operation, the load dinosaur was laboriously freed from the mud with an additional four-wheel drive vehicle and a tractor. The sport pilots finally took off and flew along the Uruguay River . Due to a singularity of the earth's magnetic field, both the compass and the GPS were disturbed and they temporarily lost their orientation during the flight. They still made it to the Iguaçu Falls and filmed the largest waterfalls in the world from both the air and the ground. On their onward flight they got caught in a storm over the jungle, but reached the coast of the South Atlantic, to Brazil. The last stage of their world flight adventure took the couple over the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema . They circled the Cristo Redentor statue in Rio de Janeiro five times, which was the climax and conclusion of the two-year adventure.

Publications

  • Andreas Stütz: Weltflug - Two high-flyers on five continents. (The world tour with a gyroplane) Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 3-7688-3282-1 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: DVD Weltflug.tv 1 - Europe (the world tour with gyroplane) cross-frontier, BDF, Munich / Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-0-8 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: DVD Weltflug.tv 2 - Africa (The world tour with gyroplane) cross-frontier, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-1-5 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: DVD Weltflug.tv 3 - Australia & New Zealand (The world tour with gyroplane) cross-frontier, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-4-6 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: DVD Weltflug.tv 4 - USA (The world tour with a gyroplane) cross-frontier, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-6-0 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: DVD Weltflug.tv 5 - South America (The world tour with gyroplane) cross-frontier, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-8-4 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: Blu-ray Weltflug.tv 1 - Europe (The world tour with gyroplane) cross-frontier, BDF, Munich / Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-3-9 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: Blu-ray Weltflug.tv 2 - Africa (The world tour with a gyroplane) cross-frontier, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-2-2 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: Blu-ray Weltflug.tv 3 - Australia & New Zealand (The world tour with gyroplane) cross-frontier, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-5-3 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: Blu-ray Weltflug.tv 4 - USA (The world tour with a gyroplane) cross-frontier, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-7-7 .
  • Melanie & Andreas Stütz: Blu-ray Weltflug.tv 5 - South America (the world tour with a gyroplane) cross-frontier, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812838-9-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release cross-frontier GmbH and terre des hommes Press release from terre des hommes and cross-frontier
  2. ↑ Aachen News
  3. ^ Report in the Aachener Nachrichten
  4. ↑ California Dreaming http://www.zeit.de/2003/27/Jena
  5. ↑ report Aerokurier
  6. ↑ The flying rotisserie (article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung)