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...privilege of making the first trip on the first regular air-service across the North Atlantic. With free baggage weight limited to a meagre 40 lb., they waited eagerly to board the Hindenburg, Germany's newest and largest dirigible, scheduled for a threeday, non-stop voyage to Lakehurst...
...first airship to be commissioned for this purpose, since the "Graf Zeppelin" was primarily an experimental ship. Commanded by Germany's grand old man of the air, Dr. Hugo Eckener, the "Hindenburg'e" regular trips will be between Germany and South America; but this voyage to Lakehurst, if successful, will make air history. For it marks the first hesitant step of a process that air-minded men dream of--the establishment of a regular transatlantic airline. The great dirigible should not be greeted as just one more example of the insolence of an overweening nation, but as the medium through...
...transatlantic airline between Europe and North America have been England, France, Germany, and the United States, but the former two have been forced into the background because of technical difficulties. On May 6 the new German dirigible, Von Hindenburg, will inaugurate a regular North Atlantic service between Frankfort and Lakehurst. No one can deny that this link in the chain of transportation around the world is a vastly more important one than the recently initiated transpacific airline of Pan American Airways. In August the German Lufthansa expects to make its first trial flights across the North Atlantic by airplane...
...Also at Lakehurst are two blimps (one metal-clad). Last week Secretary Swanson ordered the Navy's lighter-than-air base at Sunnyvale, Calif.-home port of the late Macon-converted for heavier-than-air training, planned to concentrate all future lighter-than-air activities at Lakehurst. A third Navy blimp, still at Sunnyvale, will be transferred to Lakehurst...
Last week the Navy's sole surviving dirigible was walked out of her Lakehurst hangar, moored securely to her mobile mast.* Her tail was buckled to a flatcar mounted on a huge circular track, left there to swing with the wind. Decommissioned nearly three years ago, partly dismantled and condemned as unfit for further avigation, the 11-year-old Los Angeles had bein reconditioned not to fly but to determine how she might weather a year's uninterrupted exposure to the elements...