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...Hugo Eckener (TIME, Oct. 27), onetime German pilot of the ZR3 (now the Los Angeles (TIME, Dec. 8), before the Royal Aeronautical Society of London, last week, presented an interesting estimate of the commercial possibilities of airship travel based upon the service of three large airships for regular Atlantic crossings. The approximate cost of each trip would be $50,000, while the revenue would be something like $80,000 from 25 to 30 passengers (at a rate of about $5 for each pound avoirdupois), $15,000 from mails and $20,000 from baggage and express packages, leaving a neat profit...
...future. It is because they believe that aircraft will revolutionize transportation, and because they want Detroit to be the center of manufacture for the equipment of the air. They have recently donated an airport to the City-a model of its kind. When Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the ZR3 in its trip across the Atlantic, visited Detroit, Henry Ford invited him to bring the huge ship to Detroit. "We'd have no place to tie up. We'd have to have a tower of some kind to tie up to," said Dr. Eckener. "Well...
...ZR3 left Lakehurst early one morning and reached the Anacostia Naval Air Station near Washington two hours before the Presidential party was scheduled to welcome it. Accordingly, Commander J. M. Klein gave Washington a treat by a peaceful two-hour cruise over the city. When the time finally came for the ceremonies, the ZR3 misbehaved disgracefully. Six hours flight had made a dent in the fuel supply carried on board, and the huge dirigible was too light and buoyant. Several hundred sailors hanging on heavy tow lines could not haul her down, and when one of the tow lines snapped...
Dreadnoughts then superdread-noughts; airships, now superairships. The Shenandoah and the ZR3 with their 2,00,000 cu. ft. of gas or so, their lifting capacity of 150,000 Ib. will soon appear small and insignificant. Airships improve with size; the larger they are, the faster they can go and the greater the proportion of commercial load they can carry relative to their gross weight. Accordingly, the Good-year-Zeppelin Co. is planning on a 5,000,000 cu. ft. ship and the British are actually starting work on two ships of equal size...
...Coolidge vetoed all plans for a Polar flight. Now that the U. S. has two large dirigibles in its possession, and such perfect command of both ships has been demonstrated again and again, there is revived talk of the expedition. General Mason M. Patrick in fact wants the ZR3 transferred to the Army, and a race between ZR3 and Shenandoah "to either the North or the South Pole." There would be sufficient thrill to a polar flight even without the element of a race. If a mooring mast and hangars were erected at Nome, Alaska, the actual distance...