Margrit Waltz

Stops were made in Wick, Scotland; Keflavík, Iceland; and Goose Bay, Canada.

In a 2016 interview, she said that being at the boarding school under the supervision of the nuns to "the closest thing I could imagine to being in prison" compared to the "freedom" she was watching at the airport.

[6] Her first flight instructor was Erich Hartmann;[4] nicknamed "Bubi", he had 352 aerial kills, making him the highest-scoring ace of all time.

One of her assignments at Aero-Ferry was to deliver a Cessna Turbo 210, setting a world record for a non-stop flight from Goose Bay to Düsseldorf.

The publicity from this flight brought her to the attention of the German broadcasting company WDR, which hired her as a "weather girl".

[9] In 2002, Waltz made her 550th trans-atlantic ferry flight in a Lancair Columbia 300 named The New Spirit of St. Louis; the plane had previously been flown eastbound by Erik Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh's grandson, following the original 1927 New York to Paris route his grandfather took.

The original plan was to fly westbound directly to the Wilkes-Barre from Germany, but she landed in Iceland due to strong winds, and then continued the trip from there.