Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countess Hella Brandenstein, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany's most distinguished pioneer in aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...
Many aeronautical experts hold the dirigible the answer to the problem of how to make trans-Atlantic air services both profitable and safe. Two nations, Germany and England, have been rushing airship construction with this purpose in mind, but while a giant German Zeppelin will be ready for flight next month, English efforts to build the R-100 at Howden, Yorkshire, have met with serious delays. Government subsidies, already totaling $1,750,000, are at an end until test flights may prove successful. No funds are available for the wages of 300 skilled workmen, now sheathing the airship in silver...
More at ease, relaxing after the strenuous day, the Baron continued, speaking of the possibility of establishing lighter-than-air service between the two continents. "Just as electricity is superseding petrol and coal, so will the airplane outlast the Zeppelin. These craft are too unwieldy...
Performance. The Los Angeles came from Germany, where she was built (Zeppelin ZR-3), in 80 hours, a non-stop flight of 5,060 miles (TIME, Oct. 20, Oct. 27, 1924). Her top speed is 70 m. p. h. She has visited Bermuda, Porto Rico, flown many training flights at sea; voyaged 50,370 nautical miles since her arrival in 1924. Her usual cruising crew is about 45. She will carry 100 passengers who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside...
Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine were last week enjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known as Baden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelin plants. Some of their doings: ¶Fraulein Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed woman pilot, was taken for a ride over Berlin by Pilot Chamberlin. Skillful, she also took Passenger Levine for a ride. Correspondents heralded the trips as strengthening to U. S.-German relations...