Word: schwabenland
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...Horta in the Azores, some 500 miles off Lisbon, sped the mothership Schwabenland. Aboard were the world's most powerful catapult and two sleek new Dornier all-metal flying boats, the Aeolus and Zephir. High-winged monoplanes with sponsons, powered by two Junkers Diesel engines in tandem on the wing-top, they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards...
...days later, in dropped the Aeohis, having made the 2,063 miles to Bermuda in 18 hours, the 770 miles on to Manhasset in six. Both planes tied up to await the arrival of the Schwabenland this week when they will be catapulted away for the return flights...
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