Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times the airship Hindenburg flew the Atlantic. Two Lufthansa flying boats made the trip twice. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham accomplished the hard East-to-West passage solo. Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill went over and back. Meantime the Blixen-Bjorkvall Bellanca, loaded with ping-pong balls like Harry Richman's Lady Peace, never left the ground. Its take-off for Stockholm was constantly postponed, apparently because the pair were finicky about the weather. This did not bother Baroness Blixen-Finecke. The blonde noblewoman was having so much fun partying on Long Island that she could not find time...
...officeworkers in Manhattan first glimpsed the Hindenburg's silvery nose. A tail wind sped her on to New Jersey. On a Newark roof a garage mechanic stepped backward to get a better view, crashed through a skylight to his death. The big ship floated over Philadelphia, returned to Lakehurst...
...rainy midnight last week the great German dirigible Hindenburg rose from her moorings at Lakehurst, N. J., for her tenth,and final 1936 crossing of the Atlantic eastward. Just before she soared away her massive designer, Dr. Hugo Eckener, celebrated a summer of perfect performance with a bit of perfect publicity. On an invitation cruise over six Eastern States he carried 84 potent U. S. industrialists, Government officials and financiers, as a demonstration of lighter-than-air transport to those best able to do something about...
...this spring, when Father Schulte traveled to the U. S. on the Hindenburg and thereupon with papal permission celebrated the world's first aerial Mass (TIME. May 18), MIVA had acquired a dozen planes, more than 150 automobiles and motorboats which now ply among mission stations in Albania, Lettland, East, West and South Africa, Madagascar, Korea, New Guinea, Brazil and the Solomon Islands. Last week Father Schulte was in Manhattan, full of plans for adding northern Canada to MIVA's territory. During the summer, accompanied by Toronto Pilot Pat Howard, he flew an all-metal Junkers named Santa...
Significance of last week's flights was that they thoroughly proved that transatlantic airplane service is feasible. Probably by next spring, say the Germans, regular flights will commence, but only to carry mail and express. For transoceanic passenger flights, Germany puts its trust in dirigibles like the Hindenburg which during the past summer made ten round trips between Frankfort and Lakehurst without a hitch...