Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should have better sense. Love," cabled Mrs. Henry J. Pierce to her husband in Manhattan. He had pleaded with her over the telephone and cable and through the U. S. State Department not to sail on the Graf Zeppelin from Friedrichshafen. She did sail, early one fair morning last week, with Susi, female gorilla, 17 male passengers and the Zeppelin's crew of 40 (Dr. Hugo Eckener commanding...
Paul W. Litchfield, president of Good-year-Zeppelin Corp., last week called on President Hoover to ask whether the U. S. would look with favor on granting a contract to carry mail by Zeppelin from California to Honolulu. Evidently the President's reply was favorable, for Mr. Litchfield announced plans for constructing two giant dirigibles twice the size of (he Graf Zeppelin. The two ships, sisters of the two huge ships which Goodyear is constructing for the U. S. Navy, are to use helium as their supporting gas, will have engines and cabins enclosed in the hulls, will cost about...
...preparation for the return trip of the Graf Zeppelin to Friedrichshafen, if and after it reaches the U. S. next week as planned, Union Carbide & Carbon Co. last week shipped several tank cars of a new fuel gas to Lakehurst. The German dirigible in its flight to the U. S. last year, used gas instead of gasoline as fuel for its engines?the reason being that when gasoline is used up, an airship becomes lighter and rises unless some of its bag gas is also set free, a costly expedient. Gaseous fuel as it is used up can be replaced...
...Germans adopted "Blau" gas, a mixture of several gases obtained by cracking petroleum. The gas prepared to take the Graf Zeppelin back to Germany is ethane, extracted from natural gas. It is asserted that ethane is not only cheaper to produce than Blau gas but is a better fuel. Germany, which has little natural gas, cannot produce...
...England, two new giant dirigibles are undergoing shed trials. One of these, the R-100, is expected to be ready for a flight to North America early in June ?on the heels of the Graf Zeppelin. The R-100 has one-third greater gas capacity than the German ship and a passenger capacity of 100 as compared to the other's 25. It is to have a top speed of 82 m. p. h.. is powered by six 700 h. p. Rolls-Royce Condor Motors, is built of tubular members in such a way that its framework...