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“Superman,” the plane—not the bird or the radio hero of Mutuals afternoon serial—is now riding the air waves over Germany. A Boeing Flying Fortress, member of the famous Eighth Army Air Force which has its base in England, has been named “Superman,” in honor of the fabled radio character.
East and Westbound Mails Delivered This Morning by Planes Arriving In Nation’s Largest Cities.
NEW YORK, July 2.—(Associated Press.)—Dark-to-dawn air mail service between America’s two greatest cities became a reality today. Cleaving the night along a beacon lighted highway the government’s mail planes transferred letters to and from New York and Chicago between the close of one business day and the opening of the next. Two eastbound air couriers, aided by a stiff wind bettered their schedule of 8 hours and 15 minutes—in one case by two hours. The same wind held back the westbound planes. One completed its assignment in a little more than the allotted time. Accidents to the other emphasized the differences the airmen nightly must overcome.
Kings Bay. Spitzbergen, Monday, June 22—(AP)—Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and the other members of the expedition which recently made an ineffectual attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane from Spitzbergen, will sail tomorrow from King’s Bay for Oslo, Norway. They will take with them the seaplane which brought them back from the Arctic Circle to Spitzbergen.
Dr. Walter Bleistein Coming Here to Enlist Aid of Federal Government.
Co-operation of the United States Government and American scientific organizations in a proposed Arctic expedition of the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin will be sought here this week by Dr. Walter Bleistein. secretary and treasurer of the Aero-Arctic Society, who arrived In this country from Europe recently. Dr. Bleistein probably will arrive in this city tomorrow and will remain here two or three weeks, it is expected.
Dr. Bleistein will request the assistance of the War Department, Navy Department and Weather Bureau in arranging the details of the expedition, in setting up fueling and servicing depots and in maintaining communications and weather forecasting services while the big dirigible is in flight over the areas mapped for exploration. The scientific party aboard the Graf Zeppelin probably will be headed by Fridtjof Nansen, noted Arctic explorer. The Graf Zeppelin is to leave Friedrichshafen, Germany, its home base, some time in April, according to present plans, and proceed to Tromsoe, Norway, where a mooring mast has been erected.
San Francisco, Oct. 20—The dirigible Shenandoah arrived over San Francisco at 3:05 P. M., today and sailed over the business section for a half hour. As far as the city was concerned, she was first spoken off Point Bonita, six miles to the north, at 2:40 P. M., for an hour before the great envelope, steel grey against the sky, could be seen by thousands of eager watchers on the roofs of buildings and in the streets.
Giant Dirigible Takes Northerly Path to Avoid Storms—Speeds Along at 75-Mile Rate
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Her wireless crackling out cheering that all aboard are well, at least three of her four motors roaring rymthically and speeding her towards her goal, the Zeppelin ZR-3 with four Americans and twenty-eight Germans, officers and men, was drawing near the United States today.
“We are headed directly for Newfoundland, making seventy-five nautical miles per hour. All our crew are well and the engines are in perfect condition.”
Shortly after 1 p. m. today the above message was relayed to the United Press from the Zeppelin ZR-3 by the Radio Corporation of America’s station at Chatham, Mass.
The First Aviation Day of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Is Marked by Successful Demonstrations by Both Wright and Curtiss—Dirigible Balloons Come to Grief Very Quickly.
Yonkers, N. Y., Sept. 25—As the Clermont came within sight of the docks here the water in her boilers became exhausted and the engine became overheated. Her machinery was stopped, while a tug put a line aboard and towed the craft ashore.
New York, Sept. 29.—Wilbur Wright circled the great statue of Liberty at the entrance of New York harbor in his aeroplane today. while in the upper part of the city two dirigible balloons failed ingloriously in their task. This, the first day of flight of the Hudson-Fulton celebration, was a victory for the heavier-than-air machine.
Victims of Plane Disaster Burned Beyond Recognition.
By United Press
GRANTS, N. Mex., Sept. 8.—High on the wooded hillsides of Mt. Taylor, 65 miles south of here, a searching party Sunday found the charred bodies of the passengers and crew of the ill-fated air liner City of San Francisco.