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Transatlantic mail & passenger airship service was brought another step nearer when the House passed the Grosser bill providing long-term mail contracts (TIME, March 21). If the bill passes the Senate, which has received a favorable committee report. Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. will begin immediately a building program to provide scheduled service in three years...
...usual without fanfare, Liftschiffbau Zeppelin last week announced its autumn schedule of five round trip flights of the Graf Zeppelin between Friedrichshafen and Pernambuco, Brazil...
Research. Of its $2,500,000 endowment, the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Aeronautics allotted one-tenth for lighter-than-air study. Housed in a new building at the Akron Municipal Airport, hard by the gigantic Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, the Guggenheim Airship Institute was to be dedicated this week. Features: largest vertical wind tunnel in existence, 60 ft. high; a small wind tunnel for testing instruments; meteorological tower; structural testing room. Chief problems to be attacked: nature of the so-called "boundary layer" of air, adjacent to the outer skin of an airship, and its resistant effect upon...
...previous crossings: the U. S. S. Shenandoah (twice), the Graj Zeppelin, the Akron...
When the Graf Zeppelin made her first flight from Germany to the U. S. in 1928 Hearst correspondents had exclusive right to send news despatches en route. North American Newspaper Alliance's Berlin agent arranged with a passenger, Robert Reiner, Manhattan businessman, for descriptions of the flight which he would send as private radiograms to friends in the U. S., although all passengers were required to sign an agreement with the airship operators that they would not give out reports during the flight or for eight days after the landing. Passenger Reiner sent ten messages...