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...commonplace as a steamship crossing" was considered by many a fairly far-fetched prediction for dirigible travel in the near future. Yet last week, with so little fanfare that few in the U. S. were aware of it, the Graf Zeppelin visited Rio de Janeiro with passengers & mail on her fifth voyage from Friedrichshafen since Aug. 28. At the same time in Akron, Ohio an important milestone was passed in U. S. dirigible development. On the strength of a radiogram from the Secretary of the Navy, Lieut. Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, naval inspector of construction of the airship Akron...
...does know all about airplanes. He was until last week Marshal of the Royal Air Force. In 1912 he taught himself to fly within a week. During the War he organized and commanded the secret air squadrons whose mission was to wreak frightfulness on German cities in retaliation for Zeppelin raids over Britain, a dangerous duty little reported in the British Press. In the army leather-lunged Lord Trenchard was known as "Boom," because of his reputed ability to turn an entire brigade into a column of fours without the aid of a megaphone or relayed commands. Last week Lord...
...gargantuan orange-peel doors of the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron slid open one sunny afternoon last week and the biggest dirigible ever built moved slowly out, stern first, pushed by the mobile stub mooring-mast at her bow. For this moment of ideal weather officials of Navy and Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. had waited for days. The low hills which make a natural amphitheatre of Akron's municipal airport were black with automobiles and spectators. The Akron...
Transatlantic- The Graf Zeppelin returned to Friedrichshafen non-stop from Pernambuco...
...largest flying boat, last week resumed her laggard nine-month journey from Switzerland. Proceeding by easy stages from Belem, Brazil, where two motors had been replaced, she paused at San Juan to pick up a passenger. He was George Washington Grouse. Syracuse, N.Y. grocer, onetime passenger on the Graf Zeppelin. So eager was he to extend his accomplishments that he had waited two weeks for the arrival of the DO-X. After a stop at Cuba, the DO-X settled comfortably at Miami. Riding at anchor in Biscayne Bay, she was inspected by hordes of curious Miamians...