Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Graf Zeppelin, Again. The gorilla and the chimpanzee were glum, the 600 canaries fidgety, the 19 passengers restless, the imprisoned stowaway morose?aboard the Graf Zeppelin as she rushed across the Atlantic last week on the second transoceanic commercial air voyage. She reached Lakehurst, N. J., from Friedrichshafen, at the German-Swiss border in 95 hrs., 23 mins. without trouble, having averaged 60 miles an hour during most of the trip,?about twice as fast as the S. S. Bremen. Passengers, after an agreeably brief customs and immigration inspection, gloated over the relative uniqueness of their air travel...
...Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine, St. Louis endurance flyers (TIME, Aug. 5), "hated to land," but they did, after 420 hr., 21 min., 30 sec., i.e., 17? days in the air. Rewards: $31,255 prize money, $2,756 cash gifts, cheers from a reception crowd of 15,000, kisses from their wives. The utility of their long flight was debatable. They did display the stamina of their Curtiss-Challenger engine and they did strengthen public confidence in flying. Otherwise they accomplished nothing that had not been indicated by previous endurance flights. By operating their motor at low speed they...
Last week at London, Denys Stanley Thomas, Royal Air Force officer, was sentenced to one year hard labor for operating his airplane, while drunk, so erratically that a scared man passenger jumped to his death...
...nearby ports of entry are not incompatible, as the Government indicated last week by designating both Ford Airport at Dearborn and Grosse Isle Airport near Detroit 15 miles apart. A third gateway for foreign air commerce named last week is Newport, Vt. Thus there are 13 airports of entry in the U. S. - last week's three and Key West, Miami, St. Paul, Albany, San Juan, Seattle, Lake Union (near Seattle), Newark (N. J.), San Diego, Los Angeles (all ports under Los Angeles jurisdiction...
...Western Air Express (Western Air, in connection with New York Central, Santa Fe and Chicago & Alton railroads has announced a 46-hour coast-to-coast air-rail service. It carried 13,102,715 pieces of mail and 7,880 passengers during the first six months of 1929. Chief mail route is Los Angeles to Salt Lake City [664 miles]. Chief passenger route is Los Angeles to Kansas City. Passengers ride in 12-passenger Fokkers. Net income, first quarter $ 320,000 Net income, entire year...