Word: zeppeliner
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...Berlin early risers crowded to the rooftops to cheer this "symbol of German invincibility." Work ceased for the morning. On one rooftop the widow of a former Zeppelin officer, who had kept watch since dawn, dropped dead as the glistening monster drifted overhead...
...Friedrichshafen the same evening Dr. Hugo Eckener, pilot and designer of the Count Zeppelin, announced that the ship had passed successfully her final 35-hour test...
During a trial flight of the Count Zeppelin the Blau gas was alternated repeatedly with the ordinary mixture of benzol and gasoline without causing the slightest trouble to the new type Maybach motors, the first time in the history of aerial navigation that a gas had been used as fuel. "Our passengers," said Dr. Eckener, "did not even know that we had been running on gas until I told them...
...Graf Zeppelin is not a fair weather ship," Dr. Eckener explained. "She demonstrated that . . . but I am not going to pick out the worst day to start for America. . . . Moreover the weather will determine whether we travel 4,000 miles or 6,000 miles. . . . Naturally I would like best to choose the northern route which is the shortest. . . . From the moment we reach the European coast we will need from 45 to 80 hours for the actual crossing. . . . After the fortieth hour don't worry if you do not hear from us for a long time...
Conspicuous among the passengers booked for the Atlantic trip were C. E. Rosendahl, commander of the Los Angeles; Count Brandenstein Zeppelin, 30n-in-law of the late great Count; Herr Brandenburg, chief of the German Air Ministry; Lady Drummond Hay,* Hearst correspondent, who will be the first woman ever to have made such a crossing. During the trial flight she wrote: "It is a strange sensation, sleeping in cabins attached to gas bags swinging 7,000 feet in the air between the full moon and the glassy North Sea. . . . We have a million cubic feet of gas but no heat...