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...bearded Dr. Hugo Eckener barked that proud announcement on Oct. 15, 1924 as he stepped from the gondola of the LZ-126 in the Navy's airship dock at Lakehurst, N. J. Neither his drill-sergeant bearing nor his snapping eyes gave hint of the ignominy in his mission: he was delivering the ship to the U. S. Navy from Friedrichshafen where his Zeppelin Co. had built it as a Reparations payment. Within the silvered hulk was a crew of stolid Germans, a mail cargo, a tabloid edition of Vossische Zeitung, 1,000 toys for Wanamaker's store...
...Akron. For the fifth time Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl crossed the U. S. by airship.* In a 53-hr. flight he took the Navy's proud U. S. S. Akron with her crew of 82 from Sunnyvale, Calif, to Parris Island, S. C. (U. S. Marine Corps air station) for refuelling, thence to her home base at Lakehurst, N. J. An able writer, Commander Rosendahl found time to flash radio messages of more than routine value. Excerpts...
Over Phoenix. Ariz, at midnight the Akron circled for a time, adjusting her trim for the push over the mountains. She disgorged her two airplanes to fly on by themselves, lightening the airship's load by 6,000 Ib. and adding 2,000 ft. to her ceiling. Crossing Texas, Commander Rosendahl spurned Fort Worth and Dallas to fly over his mother's home at Cleburne. On the last leg from Parris Island the Akron averaged 75 knots, a record...
Transatlantic mail & passenger airship service was brought another step nearer when the House passed the Grosser bill providing long-term mail contracts (TIME, March 21). If the bill passes the Senate, which has received a favorable committee report. Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. will begin immediately a building program to provide scheduled service in three years...
Research. Of its $2,500,000 endowment, the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Aeronautics allotted one-tenth for lighter-than-air study. Housed in a new building at the Akron Municipal Airport, hard by the gigantic Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, the Guggenheim Airship Institute was to be dedicated this week. Features: largest vertical wind tunnel in existence, 60 ft. high; a small wind tunnel for testing instruments; meteorological tower; structural testing room. Chief problems to be attacked: nature of the so-called "boundary layer" of air, adjacent to the outer skin of an airship, and its resistant effect upon...