SZT5059834: At the Berlin-Johannisthal airfield, the pioneer and owner of the aircraft repair plant in Strausberg Alfred Friedrich is greeted by a woman with flowers after he successfully completed the Berlin-Paris-London-Berlin route. His plane was the so-called Etrich pigeon built by himself. The first long-haul flight Berlin-Paris-London-Berlin over a distance of 2500 kilometres in September 1913, in which the then 22-year-old Alfred Friedrich crossed the canal twice with a passenger on board, represented an enormous achievement in that stage of development of international aviation, 1913 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images