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Dr. 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...
Early Sunday morning, the Coghlan, 75 miles off Ivigtut, sighted two black specks. Growing bigger and bigger, the specks became planes, whirred over the Coghland, then over the McFarland, 115 miles westward; then the Charles Ausburn, 115 miles further; then the Lawrence, 126 miles beyond. At last Admiral Magruder on...
The U. S. globe-circling aeronauts sat in lonely Reykjavik (Iceland) and looked out westward over a cold grey sea. Naval scouts wirelessed them that the eastern harbors of Greenland were jammed with ice-floes, that their next hop would have to be 825 miles, to Ivigtut on a southerly...
Not every one is so far-sighted as this Senator's son. Nor if they were would they be by any means sure of having settled, once for all, what manner of face the public shall behold upon them. Not only do cameras, light and other physical circumstances vary...
On July 31 the American world fliers were to start on the last lap of their journey around the earth's crust. On that day the fog curled its haunches and lay down like a great gray beast from the Orkney Islands to Iceland. For two days, it did...