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...been flying as a passenger since 1914, has toured most of Europe, the West Indies and the U. S. by air. She has never attempted to become a pilot. A good friend of Dr. Hugo Eckener, she was the first paying woman passenger to cross the Atlantic in the Graf Zeppelin (Lady Grace Drummond Hay, Hearstling, preceded her but as a dead-head). In Manhattan last year she met Dr. Claude Dornier, offered $11,000 for passage in his huge flying boat for its much touted flight direct to the U. S. When the plane finally made its floundering...
...Augusta, Maine,* retired publisher of Comfort who made a 19,000 mi. journey via Pan-American; Alden Freeman, 69, rich and eccentric philanthropist, "Honorary Consul-General of Haiti" (TlME, Feb. 16); Funnyman Will Rogers; Charles A. Levine, first transatlantic air passenger; George Nellis Grouse, Syracuse grocer, persistent Graf Zeppelin passenger and 'first flight fan" of domestic air lines...
...quick dip of salute by a plane in flight, another the wing-wag of greeting, another the ring-laying ceremony for a new dirigible (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). Picturesque is still another -the christening of a new balloon with liquid air. As in the case of the Graf Zeppelin and many smaller craft, it was planned that the Navy's great Akron should be named to the accompaniment of a flask smashed against the nose of her control car, a quick puff of white vapor...
...Distance covered: 15,474 mi.; flying time, 4 days, 10 hr. Previous round-the-world record was the Graf Zeppelin's 21 days 7 hr. 34 min. Her distance...
...Graf Zeppelin flew from Friedrichshafen to Iceland and back as practice for its Arctic cruise late this month...