Word: friedrichshafen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week 50 excited people trooped into the little German town of Friedrichshafen. Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, European News Manager Webb Miller of United Press, Lady Drummond-Hay, Newshawk Karl von Wiegand, Poloist Elbridge Gerry, many another notable had each plunked down $500 for the privilege of making the first trip on the first regular air-service across the North Atlantic. With free baggage weight limited to a meagre 40 lb., they waited eagerly to board the Hindenburg, Germany's newest and largest dirigible, scheduled for a threeday, non-stop voyage to Lakehurst...
Last week when Germany's von Hindenburg floated up from Friedrichshafen for its first crossing to South America, the German Press was overflowing with news of this hugest of all dirigibles. In the midst of the furor, the Press was abruptly ordered to drop all mention of Dr. Hugo Eckener. Reported reasons: No Nazi, the doughty, pouch-eyed old aeronaut had refused to make an election statement endorsing Adolf Hitler, had unsuccessfully opposed using the von Hindenburg in the election campaign, had successfully opposed naming it Hitler...
...eight hours, the von Hindenburg passed the white cliffs' of Dover, swashed along at 58 knots over the waves toward Pernambuco, Brazil. Above the Equator the passengers were baptized not by the Sea's "Neptune" but by "Aeolus," god of the winds. One hundred hours out of Friedrichshafen, the von Hindenburg snored over Rio de Janeiro, was warped painfully to the mast at brand new Santa Cruz airdock. Thirty-seven passengers and one German automobile descended...
...Back at Friedrichshafen after four days of high-altitude stumping, the Hindenburg underwent a swift overhaul, to prepare the brand-new ship for its real test-a voyage to South America under Captain Ernst August Lehmann. On its first transatlantic trip the Hindenburg, carrying 30 passengers, was scheduled to reach Rio de Janeiro in 80 hours. The voyage will be no novelty to Captain Lehmann. He grew up with the science of airship operation, was for years Dr. Hugo Eckener's right-hand...
Like a monstrous, whitish grub dragged from its great cocoon, the new German dirigible LZ-129 last week nosed out of its hangar at Friedrichshafen for its first test flight. With Dr. Hugo Eckener in charge of a skeleton crew, the silvery 812-ft. airship, nearly twice the Graf Zeppelin's size, drifted silently out over Lake Constance for three hours, behaved so perfectly that officials boasted further trials were superfluous...