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unusual facts about Baldonnel


Baldonnel

Baldonnel Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin


Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld

On 12 April 1928 these three left Baldonnel in the Bremen and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, landing at Greenly Island at the south coast of Labrador, Canada.

After some test flights, and breaking the record for flight duration, Hünefeld and Köhl flew to Baldonnel, Ireland, where they met James C. Fitzmaurice, the Irish Air Corps Commandant of the Baldonnel Airodrome.


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