Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, while Fliers von Huenefeld, Koehl and Fitzmaurice triumphed in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc. etc., it was reported that the Bremen, still stranded at Greenly Island, might not be able to fly away if it were not fetched before spring thaws softened the ground. To spare the heroes a break in their tour, the War Department last week announced an expedition to Greenly Island in two amphibian planes commanded by Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Corps. A pilot of the Junkers Corporation was taken along, to be dropped on Greenly Island by parachute...
...Fairchild firm manufactures an average of one airplane a day, including luxurious passenger planes and sporting flying boats. Out of the 12 planes to reach Greenly Island (where the Bremen is), 10 were Fairchilds...
That air-minded steamship line, the North German Lloyd-it was one of the backers of the flight of the Bremen-announced last week the "first air cruise in history." It will begin in the middle of September at Bremen, cover Europe between Bremen, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Paris, London, allowing passengers stopovers to attend the International Aeronautical Exhibition and the great plane factories of the Continent. North German Lloyd advertised: ". . . Luxurious giant transports of the air ... official receptions all along the route ... all expenses on land, water and air included . . . $1,290 up ... reduced rates for aeronautic students . . . September...
Emergency. On Friday, April 20, Floyd Bennett suffering from influenza flew to the assistance of the Bremen crew. When he arrived in Lake Ste. Agnes, Quebec, he had contracted pneumonia...
Reporters, telegraphers, editors, printers were the first to feel the effect of their flight; to them it meant just another day of newspapers. Skippers of steamships next craned their necks, scanning the leaden skies for some sign of this fleeting Bremen.* But when Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice dropped onto the frozen waste of Greenly Island in Southern Labrador, far off their expected course, they gave Lighthouse Keeper Le Tempier a torch with which to light the fires of the world...