GREAT AIRSHIP
RETURN TRIP STARTED. 55 PASSENGERB CARRIED. BOY SCOUT‘S TRIP AS PRIZE. L‘nlted Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Cdm'right. NE\V YORK. May it. The airship iiindenburg left Lakeiiursi, New Jersey, at 1027 p.lll. 10-day on her return trip to Germany. She (married 55 passengers who included a female aviation enthusiast aged 87, and a be). sc-oui, aged in, who is having the trip as a prize. The dirigilbie aiso carried many tons of mail and freight. Dr. Hugo \‘rm Eckener. Zeppelin commander, revealed that on a visit to
President Roosevelt in Washington to—day ‘he had predicted that a 2!: hours‘ trip across the sea in airships was a probability of the not distant future. He intimated further that a regular German-American dirigible transport line prolhany would he established if the American authorities were satis—fied as to the dependability of the dirigihle after 10 crossings of the Atlantic by the Hindenhurg.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19884, 13 May 1936, Page 7
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149GREAT AIRSHIP Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19884, 13 May 1936, Page 7
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