Word: zeppeliner
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...also drunk. Ben Lyon, as the timid brother, acted best. Discounting its less efficient elements the picture still stands as an astounding achievement. The air sequences will draw gasps from the most stolid patron. In the early reels a duel (German) is most adroitly handled. Scenes on board a Zeppelin raiding London are tense with grim reality. The destruction of this Zeppelin has rarely been rivalled in the whole history of motion picture thrills. Best shot: the Zeppelin nosing through night clouds over London. Not the least talk-provoking thing about Hell's Angels was its producer, young, thin...
Berlin to Rio. Excited Spanish soldiers bungled the refueling at Seville. Instead of the expected northeast trades off the African coast, came head and beam winds. Torrential downpours near the Equator bore down like tons of added ballast. But the Graf Zeppelin plowed steadily along her new trade route to Brazil, landed at Pernambuco after 62 hours. The time from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro was six and a half days. Besides being her sixth Atlantic crossing the flight was a two-point triumph for the Graf: 1) proving the dirigible equal to tropical weather; 2) making Latin-America...
...four women it was adventure worth $20 per hour; to 42 men. officers and crew, it was a 23-day routine; to Dr. Hugo Eckener and a group of officials in Berlin it was a momentous bid for future supremacy in Europe-South America commerce when the Graf Zeppelin poked its nose through murky skies over Friedrichshafen last week and started its 18,000-mile flight to Seville, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro; thence to Havana, Lakehurst, N. J., and home. Every attempt was made to emphasize the casual business-like aspect of the flight. Little excitement attended the takeoff, save...
Germany with her Graf, England with her R-100 & 101, the U. S. with its Goodyear-Zeppelin program have made impressive plans for transoceanic air service. With one accord, they see the dirigible as the future vehicle for long-distance air traffic. But what of France? France has neither built nor flown a sizable dirigible since the Dixmude (the ex-German L72) was lost with all hands off Sicily...
...Departure of Graf Zeppelin for South America; from Friedrichshafen, Germany...