AERONAUTICS: Being Riveted

At Friederichschafen, home of Zeppelins, skilled mechanics are now riveting together the enormous frame of the ZR-3, greatest aircraft the word has ever known. The ship (which is being constructed for the American navy) will be completed "in October or November." Estimated in terms of Woolworth's well known building—it would top that building by 93 feet, if set on end.

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