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...first crossing of the North Atlantic from Friedrichshafen. Germany. A searchlight reached up played over the fabric, came to rest on the swastikas on the rudder. Other lights on the airship twinkled back. Presently the 803-ft. sausage nosed into the haze over the Hudson, flew on toward Lakehurst, N. J. There a huge crowd had lined the U. S. Navy's vast lighter-than-air field for hours. At 5140 a.m. someone spotted the Zeppelin's big round nose poking up over the horizon in a pink glow from the rising...
Next morning everyone was up in time to watch the sunrise over Manhattan and the New Jersey meadows. Arrived at Lakehurst, the passengers found a rigid customs examination waiting them, finally flew off to Newark by American Airlines. Dr. Eckener went to work parrying questions from newshawks, preparing his ship for the return trip this week. In U. S. papers the happy, goateed old man received columns of tributes. In Germany a Nazi ban prevented his name from being mentioned...
...Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., which is closely linked to the German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit the vast Hindenburg to fit the Lakehurst hangar, Dr. Eckener removed two ribs, thus shortened her seven feet. Even so, she is 803 ft. long, 135 ft. high, holds some 7,000,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen, has nearly twice the bulk...
...occupy these quarters during the quickest available passage across the North Atlantic will, after the maiden voyage, cost $400 one way, $720 round trip. Ten round trips are scheduled for this summer. Arriving at Lakehurst, passengers will pass through Customs, be ferried to Newark by American Airlines...
...Hindenburg's serial number is LZ-129. LZ1 was built in 1900. Of the 129 ships, only two others are still extant, the Graf and the decommissioned Los Angeles, at Lakehurst. Of the rest ten never left the drawing board. 25 were lost by storm and accident, six by causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked in the War, eleven were surrendered to the Allies, seven were sabotaged to prevent surrender...