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Like two great bolognas, the Graf Zeppelin and the new Hindenburg (LZ-129) last week floated over Germany on a propaganda tour. While the Graf hovered above Bavaria sprinkling election handbills, the Hindenburg drifted beside it with a mammoth loudspeaker bleating: "The Führer's purpose is peace and honor!" By day, Reich broadcasting stations relayed special programs from a short-wave studio aboard the Hindenburg. By night, special searchlights at each major city fingered the huge sausages floating above...
...British capital completely if the Germans had so desired. Once he went home with 400 bullet holes in his ship's fabric. Continuing in the profession after the War, he rose to be assistant director of the Zeppelin works, alternated with Dr. Eckener as commander of the Graf. For four years (1923-27) he worked for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. in Akron, almost took out U. S. citizenship papers. He thinks the Hindenburg is roughly his 100th command...
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...
...wiping out the best of that country's lighter-than-airmen, she ordered the R-100 scrapped, has built none since. Only country to pursue the development is Germany, where the huge Hindenburg is soon to be launched as a running mate to the eminently successful Graf Zeppelin. This summer the Navy plans to lend its Lakehurst plant to the Zeppelin company as a U. S. terminal for an experimental transatlantic mail & passenger service...
...flew the Atlantic in 1927, no one was more excited than a large lady who lives on Manhattan's Park Avenue and keeps a vast collection of aeronauticana. The Park Avenue lady proceeded to surround herself with Lindbergh portraits. She owns a cup & saucer used on the first Graf Zeppelin flight. Her name is Bella Landauer and she is the wife of Isidor Nathan Landauer who makes Sealpacker-chiefs. Last week at Manhattan's Old Print Shop Mrs. Landauer exhibited one of her prize possessions-a collection of aeronautical songs...