220 - Africa, Flight around. Collection of 19 (5 duplicates) original press photographs by Helmuth Pirath from 1953. Format mostly approx. 18 x 24 cm.

Africa, Flight around. Collection of 19 (5 duplicates) original press photographs by Helmuth Pirath from 1953. Format mostly approx. 18 x 24 cm. On May 5, 1953, four Germans took off from a Swiss airfield in a single-engine sports plane for a flight around Africa that lasted 100 days. On board were the journalist and photographer Pirath, the journalist E. Kirchhof, and the pilots W. Seelmann and H. Zimmermann.- The photographs mostly show the aircraft and the crew before takeoff at the airfield.- Enclosed are 7 (1 duplicate) press photographs of the sports pilot couple Dannheimer from South Africa, 2 photographs from the Toulouse aircraft factory, etc.- Photographs verso partly handwritten or typographically inscribed and mostly with copyright stamp by Helmuth Pirath.- Occasionally with slight damp marks or faint creases.