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...Harvard Flying Club is to have a new hangar of its own, according to plans announced by R. B. Bell '30, president of the club, last night. A drive for $25,000 has just been started. This plan has been sanctioned by the Graduate Committee...
...crew, 450 in number, grasped the landing lines, slowly drew the ship to the ground. Four years to the day it was since Doctor Eckener landed the Los Angeles in the same place. Straining at the lines the landing crew pulled the ship to a resting-place in the hangar, beside the Los Angeles. It was 5:39 o'clock. One hundred eleven hours had passed since Friederichshafen...
...some two blocks long (763 feet) and her name is Count Zeppelin, nyth rigid airship of famed Zeppelin progeny. Last week, out of her hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, she emerged for her maiden flight, a short one. Her pilot was her designer-Dr. Hugo Eckener. She carried a crew of 30 and Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. Navy, lord of the Los Angeles...
Other business transacted at the same time consisted of the organization of a drive for the Hangar Fund. Members of the Club hope to so organize the fund as to allow for the construction of the hangar next spring. Likewise, plans were discussed for the sending of the ship to the Loening Intercollegiate Air meet at New York, to be held on December 1. Attendance at this meet will mark the climax of the fall activity of the Club...
Long before 4 o'clock on the morning of the 12th, the roads to Baldonnel were burdened with men, women, children, donkeys, cycles, motorcars. The Bremen was trundled from her hangar and poised for flight, away from a perfect dawn. Koehl and Fitzmaurice, devout Catholics, made their confessions and Father O'Riordan blessed the plane. Baron von Huenefeld, doffing his yachting cap, hung a silken flag of the old German Empire beside that of the Irish Free State. President and Mrs. William T. Cosgrave, the German Consul-General, the Chief of Staff of the Army and other officials...