GLIDER 'ARGENTINA' WITH Hans OTT 24.7.1937

GLIDER 'ARGENTINA' WITH Hans OTT 24.7.1937 ANONYMOUS. Measures: 18 xs 24 cm. Documentation: * FLIGHT OF Hans OTT First crossing of the River of the Silver in glider. The aviator was transferred from Germany where he got it with the help of Onésimo BONOMI owner of the company Monte Cudine, to Brazil to staff of the Hindemburg airship. From Rio de Janeiro they towed the airship with a Klemm to Montevideo (Uruguay) in several stages and crossed the River of the Silver the 24.7.1937 at 14.05 hours from the airport of Pando towed by an Tiger airplane Mothpilotado by the sergeant Hilario Almandos, taking 1 h 35 minutes in reaching the ceiling of 3,000 meters over Colony (Uruguay), taking step to the passage of the River of the Silver (50 kmt) and landing in the aerodrome of the Civic Centyro of Quilmes (Argentina)'