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...clerk who struck a fortune in Oklahoma oil. In this same plane, named for the oilman's daughter Mrs. Winnie Mae Fain, Post won the Los Angeles-Chicago air derby last year. Then Hall financed him for the attempt to break the round-world record of the Graf Zeppelin-21 days...
Once before, in 1929, Photographer Hillig tried to go home in a blaze of glory and bought passage on the Graf Zeppelin. But somebody blundered and at the last moment Mr. Hillig found himself left out. He made quite a fuss about it, sought a writ to prevent the Graf from sailing with- out him, finally sued for $100,000. The case was settled out of court, and no announcement made. But Mr. Hillig allowed his friends to believe that he collected $25,000, a sum which he later spent in having the Bellanca built. A different story is told...
Returning home from a (light over Switzerland one day last week the Graf Zeppelin dipped low over Lake Constance. But instead of flying on to her hangar at Friedrichshafen near the north shore, the great silver sausage slowed to a standstill about 100 ft. above the water. Capt. Ernst Lehmann barked orders, rang signals. Six open tanks were dropped at cable-ends. Striking the surface they quickly filled with water, helped drag the great ship down. First the Graf poked her nose gingerly into the lake, then gently let her stern settle until she rested evenly upon her waterproofed gondolas...
Many a sea-landing was made during the War, sometimes to take aboard the commander of a German minesweeper, fly him over a mine field located by the Zeppelin, and return him to his command. On occasion a suspected merchantman would be halted by a Zeppelin, boarded by an officer. If contraband were found, the steamer's crew was ordered to its small boats and the steamer bombed to the bottom by the Zeppelin. That practice was abandoned, however, because of the danger of destruction by incendiary bullets from the steamer. Wholly unrelated to a dirigible save by its bullet...
...rail Zeppelin" is 85 ft. long. Streamlined into its tail is a 600-h. p. in-line motor which drives a four-bladed "pusher" propeller. Testing for damage from the propeller blast, or from suction caused by the whizzing body, observers last week placed papers near the rails. As the locomotive roared by. none of the papers stirred, so effective was the streamlining...