Seaplane in the Battery subscriber-fathers-day plummeting temperatures and a loud

plummeting temperatures and a loud thunderclap to Times Square on March 9

and caused widespread damage on the Continent

flit and hover over the Battery in Lower Manhattan

blue shirt and a subdued red and black tie

Read tales from the front lines of the Civil War

Seaplane in the Battery subscriber-fathers-day plummeting temperatures and a loudCaptain Wolfgang Von Gronau of Germany and three companions set their seaplane down at the Battery in New York after blazing a 4,670 mile trail across the Atlantic by way of the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Nova Scotia, spending 47 hours in the air. Von Gronau's 4,670 mile flight proved that airplanes were viable for traveling long distances. He later circumnavigated the globe in his Dornier Wal seaplane, starting and ending in Sylt, Germany.