Word: zeppeliner
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...stocky man in a blue coat and peaked cap was in the funeral cortège?Dr. Hugo Eckener. He related a meteorological phenomenon of the disaster night which might account for the R-101 flying close to the ground. As the Graf Zeppelin landed from a flight that same night, barometric pressure fell so suddenly that the Graf Zeppelin's altimeter (on the ground) indicated that she was still 400 ft. in the air. The R-101's navigator might have believed himself 400 ft. higher than he actually...
...Friedrichshafen, Germany, Dr. Hugo Eckener was about to take his nomadic Graf Zeppelin on her regular weekly excursion across Germany...
...living quarters were completely built in, enveloped by the hull. The Los Angeles and Graf Zeppelin passenger cabins are suspended be neath the hull, behind the control cabin under the ship's nose...
...Capital resolution after resolution demanding Death for the 48 accused. One resolution asked that the supreme Soviet decoration, "The Order of Lenin," be conferred on Ogpu, the secret service organization which had ferreted out this plot. A new flood of contributions poured in from workers for the proposed Soviet Zeppelin, to be christened Ogpu in honor of the secret police...
...that we have done away with the story, there is but one major fault remaining, namely that the second half of the film is a sharp anticlimax to the zeppelin scenes portrayed in the first half. It is too bad, because after you have had your breath taken away by shots of a zeppelin drifting through clouds, and an almost melodramatic series of events leading up to its destruction, then you have to sit through some air pictures which, in different order would be much more effective than they...