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Lighter-than-air craft have frequently been downed by lightning-memorably in the National Balloon Races of 1928 when three bags were fired by bolts. Dirigibles with metal framework are less subject to the hazard, although one Zeppelin was wrecked by lightning over the North Sea during...
...Aero-Digest piloted by S. T. Moore and Lieut. W. O. Eareckson, and United Van Service with pilots George Hineman and Milford Vanik, had the unpleasant experience of being shot at by woolly-wild Texas and Arkansas farmers. Last to land, three days after the start, was the Goodyear Zeppelin, piloted by R. J. Blair and F. A. Trotter, near Greensburg, Ky. with the winning distance of 850 mi. Second: City of Detroit (700 mi.); third: United Van Service (685 mi.), landing at Russellville and Kirkmansville, Ky., respectively...
...Lords: CL Received with skepticism Air Secretary Baron Thomson's assertion that Britain ought to build another giant dirigible. "It might be asked," said Lord Thomson plaintively, "why the Graf Zeppelin can go around the world while our two airships spend their time mainly in sheds. . . . There are few Dr. Eckeners in the world and we have not had time to produce our Dr. Eckeners...
...wish to say nothing in depreciation of the Graf Zeppelin as a ship, but it cannot be compared as a structure with the R-100 and R-101, which are the strongest in the world. One of Dr. Eckener's principal experts, after seeing the R-101, said: 'That is the safest conveyance in the world, on land...
Lakehurst-Friedrichshafen. When the Graf Zeppelin saluted Manhattan's theatre crowds last fortnight in indefinite midnight farewell, it left in its airy wake the assurances of Dr. Hugo Eckener that regular trans-Atlantic service, by Zeppe lins as big as the Graf, will be a reality in September 1931. During his visit Dr. Eckener conferred with officials of Na tional City Bank, United Aircraft & Trans port Co., Union Carbide Co., Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., all associated in the new International Zeppelin Transport Corp. With a showman's flair for secrecy, he would reveal only that the U. S. terminal would...