Zeppelin Mania: R34’s Flight Home Day 3
Control Car Flight-Sergt. Watson steering. Flight-Sergt. Mayers at the elevator wheel. Altimeter (large dial) needle shows the ship is at
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July 11, 2016
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Zeppelin Mania: R34’s Flight Home Day 2
Cloud Shadows Thrown Upon the Atlantic. Photo by Major Pritchard taken from the R 34. The R34 is up and
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July 10, 2016
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Zeppelin Mania: R34’s Flight Home Day 1
R 34 Flying Just Above Dense Clouds On The Outskirts of a Depression. This illustration shows a typical cloud horizon.
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July 9, 2016
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Zeppelin Mania: R-34’s Crew Feted in America
New York wined and dined the crew of the R-34. Stowaway William Ballantyne was treated as a celebrity and followed
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July 8, 2016
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Zeppelin Mania: R-34 Day 5
The Landing of the R-34 in America Before dawn on Sunday, with the fuel situation desperate, Major Scott, the
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July 6, 2016
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Zeppelin Mania: R-34 Day 4
All day the giant airship butted strong headwinds. Major Scott, the ship’s captain, ran only three engines in order to
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July 5, 2016
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Zeppelin Mania: R-34 Day 3
July 4 (a Friday in 1919) brought with it a beautifully wonderful sunrise and a very welcome reprieve from the
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July 4, 2016
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Zeppelin Mania: R-34 Day 2
July 3rd, Morning. Over halfway to Newfoundland. Beyond wireless range. Southeasterly wind picking up. Midday. Lunch of cold roast beef
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July 3, 2016
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Zeppelin Mania: LZ-1 and R-34
The LZ-1 in Flight Over the Bodensee One hundred sixteen years ago today, at 8:03 in the evening, the LZ-1
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July 2, 2016
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Zeppelin Mania
This past Tuesday I wrote about the flight of the world’s first airliner — the LZ-7 Deutschland. That post was
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July 1, 2016
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The World’s First Commercial Airliner
Today is an auspicious day in aviation history. One hundred and six years ago, the world’s first commercial air flight
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June 28, 2016
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Where Has All the Money Gone?
One advantage of being older is that we oldsters have a perspective not available to youngsters. Now I’m not ancient.
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June 25, 2016
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