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...Maybach motors are in the Graf Zeppelin, the Los Angeles; will be in the Navy's great ZR-4; will doubtless be in the ZR5 unless the Navy first perfects a heavy-oil type now in experimental stage. R-100 has Rolls-Royce condors. R-102 has Beardmore Diesels, an experiment...
...great ship was winding up the St. Lawrence valley toward Quebec when fabric covering her port stabilizer finally yielded to the whipping of the wind and tore loose-a mishap similar to that which befell the Graf Zeppelin on her first Atlantic flight. Without parachutes, members of the R-100's crew crawled precariously about the tattered fin, made makeshift repairs...
Although shorter than the Graf, the R-100 has greater volume. Dimensions of both, compared to the U. S. Navy's ZRS-4 and ZRS-5 now being built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, Ohio: R-100 Graf ZRSs...
Blimping. Like a windstreamed globule of silver, the Goodyear-Zeppelin baby blimp Mayflower floated down upon the afterdeck of the liner Bremen as it approached New York harbor last week. Into the gondola stepped Goodyear President Paul Weeks Litchfield to be borne to Grand Central Air Terminal, thence to his Manhattan hotel, two hours ahead of other Bremen passengers. Since 1925 when the first was built, the Goodyear blimps (Pilgrim, Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Vigilant, Defender) have advertised the company by flying about the country...
Tire Trouble. John Henry Mears, theatrical producer; racing globetrotter, took off from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., in a Lockheed monoplane to beat the Graf Zeppelin's round-the-world time of 21 days. With pilot Henry J. Brown and a terrier mascot he reached Harbor Grace, N. F., tried to take off before dawn on a bumpy field, cracked up when a tire blew...