Word: graf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lords: CL Received with skepticism Air Secretary Baron Thomson's assertion that Britain ought to build another giant dirigible. "It might be asked," said Lord Thomson plaintively, "why the Graf Zeppelin can go around the world while our two airships spend their time mainly in sheds. . . . There are few Dr. Eckeners in the world and we have not had time to produce our Dr. Eckeners...
Berlin to Rio. Excited Spanish soldiers bungled the refueling at Seville. Instead of the expected northeast trades off the African coast, came head and beam winds. Torrential downpours near the Equator bore down like tons of added ballast. But the Graf Zeppelin plowed steadily along her new trade route to Brazil, landed at Pernambuco after 62 hours. The time from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro was six and a half days. Besides being her sixth Atlantic crossing the flight was a two-point triumph for the Graf: 1) proving the dirigible equal to tropical weather; 2) making Latin-America...
...four women it was adventure worth $20 per hour; to 42 men. officers and crew, it was a 23-day routine; to Dr. Hugo Eckener and a group of officials in Berlin it was a momentous bid for future supremacy in Europe-South America commerce when the Graf Zeppelin poked its nose through murky skies over Friedrichshafen last week and started its 18,000-mile flight to Seville, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro; thence to Havana, Lakehurst, N. J., and home. Every attempt was made to emphasize the casual business-like aspect of the flight. Little excitement attended the takeoff, save...
...Taken aboard at Friedrichshafen: one ton of victuals, including 6,000 eggs, 200 Ibs. bread, 1 20 bottles wine, 1,500 Ibs. ice. † Waiting to embark at Seville was Mrs. Mary Pierce of Manhattan, who was on the Graf last year when motor trouble prevented the crossing...
Germany with her Graf, England with her R-100 & 101, the U. S. with its Goodyear-Zeppelin program have made impressive plans for transoceanic air service. With one accord, they see the dirigible as the future vehicle for long-distance air traffic. But what of France? France has neither built nor flown a sizable dirigible since the Dixmude (the ex-German L72) was lost with all hands off Sicily...