Ehrenfried Günther Baron von Hünefeld, scion of old German nobility and a daredevil per excellence, was the most unlikely aviation hero ever. Born with a blind left eye and with a serious short-sightedness in his right one (the monocle was not just ornamental) as well as plagued by a more diseases (including nasty nephritis) than most of us ever heard of, he nevertheless managed to become a pioneer of civil aviation, and in April 1928 the man behind the first westbound Atlantic flight (Lindbergh covered the same distance in 1927 but moving west to east).
COOL TO THE BONE: THE STORY OF THE RABID BARON
COOL TO THE BONE: THE STORY OF THE RABID…
COOL TO THE BONE: THE STORY OF THE RABID BARON
Ehrenfried Günther Baron von Hünefeld, scion of old German nobility and a daredevil per excellence, was the most unlikely aviation hero ever. Born with a blind left eye and with a serious short-sightedness in his right one (the monocle was not just ornamental) as well as plagued by a more diseases (including nasty nephritis) than most of us ever heard of, he nevertheless managed to become a pioneer of civil aviation, and in April 1928 the man behind the first westbound Atlantic flight (Lindbergh covered the same distance in 1927 but moving west to east).