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...half-mile from the Niobe was the little steamer Therese Russ. Her Captain Mueller leaned over the bridge admiring the sight of the great airship over the picturesque windjammer. Signal flags ran up the Niobe's mast: "Who Are You?'' "Where Are You From?" "Where Are You Bound?" He called a quartermaster to open the flag locker to reply just as a great black squall struck the little barkentine...
Trapdoors in the floor of the airship were slid forward and athwartships, exposing grey space through a T-shaped aperture slightly larger than the dimensions of the plane. From the rear cockpit Lieut. Daniel Ward Harrigan signalled with his hand. An electric winch began turning. Slowly the trapeze descended, lowering the plane through the T into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever...
With his wife and comely daughter, Dr. Hugo Eckener, famed airship master, was jaunting through Germany in his shiny new Maybach-Zeppelin touring car, long, low, slate-blue with dark blue upholstery, glittering nickel. Gawpers along the way noted that he drove clumsily. Near Kempten he tried to pass another car, smacked into a tree, knocked it down, wrecked his car. Dr. Eckener & family were thrown clear, not badly hurt...
Novelty of the meet was the entry of two two-place gliders; one a Heraclio Alfaro flown by Lieut.-Commander Ralph S. Barnaby & wife (he made the first airplane-airship hook-on experiments by dropping from the U. S. S. Los Angeles in a glider); the other designed and flown by Dr. Frank Gross and Joseph F. Funk of Akron...
...Guardia to have naval tugboats join the hunt. When the tugboats, 100 Coast Guard cutters, the British naval unit at Bermuda, twelve seaplanes and 60 privately owned ships had failed to discover the Curlew, the U. S. Navy Department ordered U. S. S. Akron, world's largest airship, to join the hunt. The Akron flew to Bermuda and back without success, was preparing to make another flight when word came last week that the Curlew had been found by the Coast Guard cutter Marion. She was 80 mi. east of Nantucket, about 112 mi. further from Bermuda than...