Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some two blocks long (763 feet) and her name is Count Zeppelin, nyth rigid airship of famed Zeppelin progeny. Last week, out of her hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, she emerged for her maiden flight, a short one. Her pilot was her designer-Dr. Hugo Eckener. She carried a crew of 30 and Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. Navy, lord of the Los Angeles...
...days later, the Count Zeppelin took 82 people on a longer trip, 620 miles, over southern Germany and Switzerland. She performed so splendidly that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy...
...Eckener plans to pilot the Count Zeppelin to the U. S. and establish a regular trans-Atlantic passenger service, as the culmination of his career. Long before the World War, he worked with the late Count Zeppelin in converting the clumsy blimp into the streamlined airship. The change was essentially the perfection of a light and rigid duraluminum framework within the gas bag (envelope). The result was a superb instrument of war-with long cruising radius and many-bomb capacity. Terms of peace made it necessary for Dr. Eckener to bring Zeppelin ZR3 to the U. S., where...
...Angeles, pride of the Navy, only rigid airship† in the U. S., is going to have two sisters. Last week, a judging board of the Navy announced that the designs submitted by Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron, Ohio, a subsidiary of potent Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., are better than those of a half dozen competitors.* It seemed almost certain that Goodyear would be awarded the contracts for the two airships, that work would begin this autumn and the first new giant silver cigar would take the air in 1930. Goodyear quoted $7,950,000 as the price...
...plans are a government secret, but it is safe to say that the new ships will be longer and possibly more efficient than the Los Angeles (built in Germany as Zeppelin ZR-3). They will have either Maybach or Packard engines. The top speed of the Los Angeles is 70 m. p. h. and she has made a non-stop journey of 5,060 miles. She carries a crew of 45; but she is capable of carrying 100 passengers, who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside her envelope...