Josh Clark
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All those successful flights later, the seventh one of the new year on May 3rd, 1937, Captain Max Pruss was at the helm and it lifted off there in Frankfurt, headed toward Lakehurst.
There's a naval airbase there, by the way, which is why they kept going to suburban New Jersey.
I mean, this was still I mean, this is just before they probably would have said no.
So they they got all the way there.
And that's sort of the cruel tragedy of this is or one of them is, you know, if there were any nerves, they're like landing in New Jersey.
And they're like, this is great.
We put out our last cigars.
There was a storm happening.
So they sort of delayed the landing.
They flew out over the ocean for a few more hours.
I imagine everyone got even more liquored up.