Pulkowski, Horst |
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BORN 1908 - DIED 10 Feb 1939, Madras CAUSE OF DEATH plane crash GRAVE LOCATION Schliersee, Bayern: Friedhof an der Sixtuskirche, Seestrasse |
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Horst Pulkowski was a lieutenant colonel with the German Luftwaffe. On 17 December 1938 he departed with a Arado AR 79 V3 sport plane from Berlin to make a journey to Sydney together with lieutenant Rudolf Jenett. From 29 December to 31 December 1939 they flew non stop from Benghazi in Libya to Gaya in the British-Indies. This amounted to 6,400 kilometers and was a world record for this type of plane. On 15 January 1939 they arrived in Darwin. During the way back they made a demonstration flight near Madras in India where they collided with a huge bird of prey and crashed. Jenett survived, but Pulkowski and their Indian passenger died. Afterwards he and Jenett received the Adolf Hitler Prize for powered flight for 1938. |
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 The grave of Horst Pulkowski at the Friedhof an der Sixtuskirche, Schliersee, Bavaria. Picture by Androom (03 Sep 2013) |
Sources • Scheibmayr, Erich, Gräber in Oberbayern - ausserhalb von München, Verlag Erich Scheibmayr, München, 1998 |
