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...Dubendorf Airdrome, Zurich. He has his long-awaited assurance of at least 18 hours of good weather. Not only must he be sure of fair skies to receive him. but also that no layer of clouds shall blind his descent. Now the great yellow cotton bag, of 14,000 cu. ft. capacity, is laid carer fully out on the field by 100 workmen, sweating under a blazing sun. The shroud lines which support the spherical aluminum gondola are straightened out with meticulous care. In the cool of night hydrogen is fed from cylinders into the envelope. In less than...
Filled only to 35,000 cu. ft. because of scarcity of hydrogen, some of the bags had difficulty in leaving the ground. The City of Detroit dragged her basket along the field, barely cleared it, came down with a gas-leak 10 mi. away in the Missouri River, luckily upon a tiny island. All the others fought electrical storms through the night. Second to land next morning was the Chevrolet entry (at Jamestown, N. Dak., 410 mi.) after her crew had thrown overboard all ballast including spare clothing to let the basket clear a high tension wire. An hour later...
...farm boys near Gull Lake long enough to get directions to Regina. On they sailed for another eight hours, finally being beaten down by rain at the end of 29 hr. near Hatton, Sask. about 1,000 mi. northwest of Omaha. Surely a record for bags of 35,000 cu. ft., their distance possibly beat the U. S. record of 1,072 mi. for balloons of any size...
Though no appropriations are provided. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Good-year-Zeppelin Corp. announced that passage of the two bills this session would be accepted as authority to begin construction of the first of four 7,500,000 cu.-ft. ships, two for the North Atlantic service, two for a projected Pacific route. Even larger than the LZ-129 now abuilding in Germany, each ship will carry 80 passengers, 25,000 lb. of mail and express, will make the eastward passage in two and a half days, the westward in three. To expedite the mails, the Federal Government will...
...discussion turned to the Akron's sister ZRS-5 now abuilding, a Navy proposal was revealed to sell the doughty old Los Angeles (which by treaty terms cannot be equipped for war) to Goodyear-Zeppelin, proceeds to be used for enlarging the ZRS-5 from 6,500,000 cu. ft. to 7,500,000 cu. ft. at a cost of about...