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Passengers were unanimously enthusiastic about their experiences. Among them was Mrs. Clara Adams, rich and inveterately aeronautical widow of a Tannersville, Pa., tanner. She had been the first paying woman passenger on the Graf. She flew to Rio de Janeiro for the trip back aboard the DO-X. Said experienced Mrs. Adams: "You could hardly tell you were flying. The noise of the motors did not intrude unless you opened the port holes. Vibration also was notably absent. The cabins were spacious and comfortable...
...largest flying boat, last week resumed her laggard nine-month journey from Switzerland. Proceeding by easy stages from Belem, Brazil, where two motors had been replaced, she paused at San Juan to pick up a passenger. He was George Washington Grouse. Syracuse, N.Y. grocer, onetime passenger on the Graf Zeppelin. So eager was he to extend his accomplishments that he had waited two weeks for the arrival of the DO-X. After a stop at Cuba, the DO-X settled comfortably at Miami. Riding at anchor in Biscayne Bay, she was inspected by hordes of curious Miamians...
Moored side by side, the Akron will dwarf the Los Angeles. She will make the Graf look slender; only 9 ft. longer, the Akron is 32.9 ft. bigger in diameter and fatter throughout than the pencil-shaped Graf. Another difference between the two old ships and the new one will be the projection of eight propellers, four from each of the Akron's flanks, instead of the five large "eggs" (gondolas), each of which houses an engine on the Los Angeles and the Graf. Because her cells are filled with helium, the Akron's Maybach motors...
Also noticeable is the smallness of the Akron's control car compared to the passenger gondola of the Graf Zeppelin. Not built for sightseers, the car accommodates only the officers and crew actually directing and navigating the ship. Inside the envelope are the captain's quarters, the radio room, the photographic laboratory...
...equipment is a sounding balloon developed by Professor Paul Molchanov of Leningrad. Because the chance of recovering such a balloon from the Arctic wastes is slim, the recording device is equipped with a light radio transmitter, which automatically transmits the readings of the instruments to the Graf Zeppelin...