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Nosing over to England from the Fatherland, the long silver cigar radioed down a question: "Where is the King?" Up flashed the answer: "At Wembley." The long cigar nuzzled over toward the stadium. Not since Zeppelins last bombed England 14 years ago has a German airship flown over London. For good measure the Graf skimmed Buckingham Palace at a height of barely 200 ft., seemed almost to brush the treetops...
Significant was the inclusion of United Aircraft & Transport, profitably enterprising merger of plane, motor and transport companies (TIME, March 31). Said Dr. Eckener: "This is of particular importance. It means that the airplane and the airship, long regarded as competitors ... are joining in a cooperative enterprise. I can say that the Dornier interests (likewise) are with us in this project...
From California's sunny foggy strand to Manhattan's rocky banks went news last week of great import for future air lanes. In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...
Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker. vice-president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., said that the plan would be feasible, except for certain changes in the building construction, other officials thought that it might necessitate the dumping of tons of airship ballast water, provisions for which would have to be made. Helium Co. of Louisville, Ky., has developed for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. a mobile plant for the purification of the precious...
Besides these there were three new, surprise donations, for which Daniel Guggenheim gave yet another $500,000 last week: 1) $250,000 to the City of Akron (if the city raises a like amount) for an Airship Institute, to study lighter-than-air problems under supervision of the California Institute of Technology; 2) $140,000 for a Chair of Aeronautics in the Library of Congress; 3) the balance to some southern university for an aeronautical school. Which southern university will get the money depends upon the proved enterprise of its faculty...