Graf Zeppelin to Span Ocean in Luxury Air Travel Flight
The Graf Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen’s airship, promises unmatched comfort and safety for its first Atlantic voyage. It seats twenty in Pullman-style staterooms with electric amenities, a spacious lounge dining area, and a kitchen. engineers tout a nonhydrogen fuel concept while rivals like the British R100 loom as even larger successors.
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NEA Service II
Graf Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
America
Count Zeppelin
Graf
Los Angeles
Shenandoah
Hugo Eckner
Berlin
Tokio
Three Italian fliers die in Rhone crash during Amundsen search
Lyons France Oct 1 three Italian aviators Major Penzo Croccio and De Lagatta died when their plane struck high tension wires over the Rhone during a return from a failed Amundsen search. Two mechanics Cidignoto and Barronchinis were injured but rescued. Major Penzo praised as daring by Major Ferrarri, a Rome Brazil flyer, with prior war capture and escape as a deserter. Evansville Ind Oct 1 bank president W W Gray offers to finance leveling of the city airport site and erection of a hangar for emergency landing use, pending public financing details. He will fund up to 2000 dollars. city sanction required.
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Lyons
France
Rhone
Roald Amundsen
Major Penzo
Crocccio
de Lagatta
Cidignoto
Barronchinis
Bu Vimes
Evansville
Ind
W. W. Gray
Bank
Gray
Travelair plane visitor at Hoosier airport
D H Courtney from Morgantown West Virginia flew a Travelair bi plane through Hoosier airport on a trip from St Louis to Morgantown.
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Hoosier Airport
D. H. Courney
Morgantown
W. Va
Travelair
St. Louis
Tiny Goodyear blimp heads to New York for Battery Park landing
The small Goodyear dirigible Puritan left Lakehurst New Jersey this morning bound for New York for a second landing attempt in Battery Park after high winds halted a prior try last week.
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United Press
Lakehurst
N. J
Goodyear
Tan
New York
Battery Park
Route Lights Planned for Chicago-Michigan Air Mail Route
United States Commerce engineers will visit South Bend this week to discuss lighting the new Chicago Michigan air mail route with acting airport director John B. Kuespert. Plans call for at least three beacons between South Bend and Kalamazoo Michigan.
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South Bend
Ind
United States Department of Commerce
John B. Kuespert
Kalamazoo
Mich
Ninety-One-Year-Old Jane Tilley Takes Airplane Ride
Fresno dispatch notes Mrs. Jane Tilley on her ninety-first birthday enjoyed her first airplane flight. She arrived in California in 1852 by covered wagon and plans another trip, saying flying is thrilling and safer than a buggy. She lists experiences from horse to high powered car and seeks one last ride in the clouds.
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United Preas
Fresno
Cal
Jane Tilley
Air tour manager lands at Hoosier airport after Los Angeles visit
Ray Cooper, manager of the Ford reliability air tour, which toured Indianapolis on June 30, landed at Hoosier airport Sunday in a Buhl Airster en route to Detroit from Los Angeles where he attended air races.
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Ray Cooper
Indianapolis
Hoosier
Detroit
Los Angeles
Weather Report Summary At 9 30 A M
The report lists a 14 mph south wind, pressure 29.98 inches, temperature 60 degrees, unlimited ceiling, visibility two miles with ground fog. Compiled for The Times by J H Armington and Donald Connel, government observers.
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J H. Armington
Donald cConnel
Three New Floodlights For Indianapolis Airport
Indianapolis airport receives three 250000 candlepower floodlights at Mars Hill and the National Guard landing field. They will be wired in three to four days under Harry Brunell of Indianapolis Power and Light. Total field lighting rises to 1,500,000 candlepower plus 8,000,000 existing, improving night landings with boundary lights planned later.
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Indianapolis
Mars Hill
National Guard
Harry Brunell
Indianapolis Power and Light Company
Monocoupe Flight Brings Norton L Goldsmith to Indianapolis
Norton L. Goldsmith of Louisville and his sister-in-law Miss Kathleen Kahn arrived at Indianapolis airport Sunday aboard a Welie monocoupe. They planned a return to Louisville in the afternoon. Also noted is a statistic: England and Wales prison population fell from 20,000 to 10,000 since 1878.
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Norton L. Goldsmith
Louisville
Kathleen Kahn
Indianapolis
England and
Wales
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