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...great ship was winding up the St. Lawrence valley toward Quebec when fabric covering her port stabilizer finally yielded to the whipping of the wind and tore loose-a mishap similar to that which befell the Graf Zeppelin on her first Atlantic flight. Without parachutes, members of the R-100's crew crawled precariously about the tattered fin, made makeshift repairs...
...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...
...wish to say nothing in depreciation of the Graf Zeppelin as a ship, but it cannot be compared as a structure with the R-100 and R-101, which are the strongest in the world. One of Dr. Eckener's principal experts, after seeing the R-101, said: 'That is the safest conveyance in the world, on land...
Lakehurst-Friedrichshafen. When the Graf Zeppelin saluted Manhattan's theatre crowds last fortnight in indefinite midnight farewell, it left in its airy wake the assurances of Dr. Hugo Eckener that regular trans-Atlantic service, by Zeppe lins as big as the Graf, will be a reality in September 1931. During his visit Dr. Eckener conferred with officials of Na tional City Bank, United Aircraft & Trans port Co., Union Carbide Co., Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., all associated in the new International Zeppelin Transport Corp. With a showman's flair for secrecy, he would reveal only that the U. S. terminal would...
Numbering among its 22 passengers Sir George Hubert Wilkins, polar explorer, and Lady Wilkins, on a belated honeymoon, the Graf headed for home via Seville, was twice belabored by storms. North of Lyon, on the last day of the voyage, Dr. Eckener described the squalls as "a regular witches' cauldron...