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...Hugo Eckener might have been businesslike, might have sailed his craft without a pause to Lakehurst. Instead???with plenty of reserve fuel? he chose to dawdle genially over New York City. The great ship was first sighted about 7:50 in the morning; commuters on the ferryboats cheered loudly; and, as the ZR-3 sailed over Manhattan to the Bronx and back, hundreds of thousands of busy New Yorkers forgot office and factory and stared skyward until their necks ached. By a curious trick of vision, explainable by the ship's tremendous length, the ZR-3 at one time seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flight's End | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

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