Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed on the Southern Cross for South America, where he will establish a base for Antarctic exploration and a flight to the South Pole. He had verified his engagement to Suzanne Bennett, actress, just before sailing...
...some two blocks long (763 feet) and her name is Count Zeppelin, nyth rigid airship of famed Zeppelin progeny. Last week, out of her hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, she emerged for her maiden flight, a short one. Her pilot was her designer-Dr. Hugo Eckener. She carried a crew of 30 and Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. Navy, lord of the Los Angeles...
...days later, the Count Zeppelin took 82 people on a longer trip, 620 miles, over southern Germany and Switzerland. She performed so splendidly that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy...
...said Dr. Eckener, "remain in the air for hours in perfect safety, even if every motor should give out, which is most unlikely. We can get at every motor to repair it. We have even taken apart an entire motor and reassembled it while in flight...
...mess of epics which the newspapers print concerning bitter-faced aviators who fly grimly across oceans and continents for glory or their mothers there should be no word of a flight which began last week at Stag Lane Airdrome, near London. Not an epic but an airy epigram, it told the story of a rich old man and a charming lady and soldier...