Word: graf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joyrides in the Graf Zeppelin have been only for thrill-hunters of the economic calibre of William B. Leeds. The Graf's transatlantic fare last year was $2.000 to Spain, $2,250 to Germany. Last week Hamburg-American line, agent for Liftschiffbau Zeppelin announced "Zep rides for everybody" for next summer. Four-hour flights from Friedrichshafen over either Lake Lucerne, the Black Forest or the Tyrol will cost about $36 per passenger, provided 30 to 35 passengers participate. Longer, costlier flights are also scheduled...
Workmen pounded, sawed and lugged heavy timbers about the floor of the Graf Zeppelin's great hangar at Friedrichshafen last week. They were building a "cradle" to support the big dirigible, about to be deflated and put up for the winter. While at rest on its shoring, the Graf will be minutely inspected by dirigible experts, to estimate an airship's lifetime. The Grafs record for 1930: 155 flights covering 144,275 mi. Passengers carried, 6,278; mail, 2,200,000 pieces; freight, 12,166 Ib. Zeppelin officials claimed that revenue from passenger fares met the cost...
Capt. Ernst Lehmann, second officer of the Graf, last week told the Berlin Shipbuilders' Association how to make money in the transatlantic Zeppelin business with four or five craft making crossings within three days or less. Capital required: $7,000,000 to $12,000,000 for landing stations; $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 for construction of ships. Annual expenditures: $6,660,000, or $37,000 for each of 180 annual trips. That cost could be fully met by mail and freight revenues, said Capt. Lehmann. Zeppelins carrying 40 passengers each would show profits...
Elected. Dr. Hugo Eckener of Germany, 62, Graf Zeppelin commander; to be president of the Aero Arctic Society, succeeding the late Fridtjof Nansen of Norway (died May 13); in Berlin...
...stocky man in a blue coat and peaked cap was in the funeral cortège?Dr. Hugo Eckener. He related a meteorological phenomenon of the disaster night which might account for the R-101 flying close to the ground. As the Graf Zeppelin landed from a flight that same night, barometric pressure fell so suddenly that the Graf Zeppelin's altimeter (on the ground) indicated that she was still 400 ft. in the air. The R-101's navigator might have believed himself 400 ft. higher than he actually...