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In July 1941 the first mission over the Soviet-ruled Barents Sea to Nowaja Zemly was flown by a Heinkel 111 weather aircraft by the then most experienced weather pilot Rudolf Schütze of the weather reconnaissance squadron 5 from Banak in Northern Norway to exploit the best route for future weather flights.
That pilot scored more than 5000 weather flights since 1931 and played a major rôle in the weather reconnaissance in the Arctic until his death at a crash in 1943, he made in 1942 the first landing in the Soviet Arctic.
A short time after the first "Kröte" station was set up on Spitsbergen in July 1942, the weather pilot Rudolf Schütze took off from Banak to ecploit a suitable position for another "Kröte" station on or near Nowaja Zemlya and attempted to land on 20 July on Meshdusharsskij Island At the end of the landing run, the wheels of the Heinkel 111 sank in the soft ground and the aircraft became blocked. The crew informed by radio the base at Banak of the mishap, and another aircraft took off, with tools, planks and beams aboard, to drop at the landing place for constructing a wooden path by the crew. After about 15 hours of hard work the crew succeeded to taxy out from the soft place and take off for Banak, where they landed in the early hours of the next day.
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5000 weather flights is considerable.
In July 1941 the first mission over the Soviet-ruled Barents Sea to Nowaja Zemly was flown by a Heinkel 111 weather aircraft by the then most experienced weather pilot Rudolf Schütze of the weather reconnaissance squadron 5 from Banak in Northern Norway to exploit the best route for future weather flights.
That pilot scored more than 5000 weather flights since 1931 and played a major rôle in the weather reconnaissance in the Arctic until his death at a crash in 1943, he made in 1942 the first landing in the Soviet Arctic.
A short time after the first "Kröte" station was set up on Spitsbergen in July 1942, the weather pilot Rudolf Schütze took off from Banak to ecploit a suitable position for another "Kröte" station on or near Nowaja Zemlya and attempted to land on 20 July on Meshdusharsskij Island At the end of the landing run, the wheels of the Heinkel 111 sank in the soft ground and the aircraft became blocked. The crew informed by radio the base at Banak of the mishap, and another aircraft took off, with tools, planks and beams aboard, to drop at the landing place for constructing a wooden path by the crew. After about 15 hours of hard work the crew succeeded to taxy out from the soft place and take off for Banak, where they landed in the early hours of the next day.
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5000 weather flights is considerable.