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...almost ready for its flight from Friedrichshafen, South Germany, to Lakehurst, N. J. The directors of the Zeppelin company foresee success and little danger. But they predict failure for Amundsen's plan of airplane flight from Spitzbergen, Norway, to Point Barrow, Alaska. "Many flights will be necessary to lay in supplies at the Pole. One forced landing on barren and broken ice fields may mean death, without the faintest hope of succor for the lightly provisioned aviators...
...commander was appointed-Lieutenant Commander Zachary Landsdowne. He was the official observer for the Navy on the British airship R-34, which crossed the Atlantic. He was later assigned to duty at the Zeppelin plant in Germany where the ZR3 is now being constructed for the U. S. No other officer in naval aviation has had the experience he has in handling rigid airships...
...Akron, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. announced its purchase of all patents and rights to manu- facture Zeppelin dirigibles, including their engines, machinery and auxiliaries. The purchase price was not stated...
...reason for the willingness of the Zeppelin interests to sell out arises from the fact that under the Treaty of Versailles the vast hangars and shops at Friedrichshafen must be razed as soon as the Navy ZR3 is completed. The reason for Goodyear's acquisition of the patents is to be found partly in the unprofitable character of the tire business at present, and partly because the American Company, as the nation's largest manufacturer of mechanical rubber goods, can undertake this branch of manufacturing on a large scale with existing equipment...
Twenty-five years ago the famous Count Zeppelin built his first rigid dirigible at Friedrichshafen on the Bodensee, and in spite of many disasters and failures carried on the development of this type of aircraft with indomitable courage. With the purchase of the patents, the Goodyear Co. is also taking over the skilled Zeppelin personnel of designers and constructors...