Word: friedrichshafen
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...Washington, at Akron, in California, in New Jersey and in Friedrichshafen last week there was news of "LTA." the airman's abbreviation for lighter-than...
...bald as a bullet, and sat himself in the witness chair. Piercing blue eyes blazed above a pickled Mephistophelian profile-long, hooked nose and pointed reddish beard. He was Captain Anton Heinen who began testing and flying Zeppelins in Germany in 1910. He flew the Bodensee between Berlin and Friedrichshafen with clocklike regularity and claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years piloting. The U. S. Navy hired him in 1922 to help supervise construction of the Shenandoah and train its first crew. Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. Wiley, Akron survivor, was his pupil. When...
...Rangoon a water pump broke. Down came the plane upon a tossing sea. An S O S brought a British steamer which towed her into Rangoon. As casually as before, the plane flew on to Colombo, Bombay, Bagdad. Athens, Rome, across the Alps in a storm to Friedrichshafen...
...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, a walking doll for the small daughter of a U. S. officer...
...usual without fanfare, Liftschiffbau Zeppelin last week announced its autumn schedule of five round trip flights of the Graf Zeppelin between Friedrichshafen and Pernambuco, Brazil...