Aeronautics: LTA

Lighter-than-air craft made this news last week:

¶ The Graf Zeppelin cast off from her Friedrichshafen mast for the 347th time, headed over the ocean for the 50th time, carrying her 8,697-th passenger and 100 white mice to Brazil, thence to Chicago (due Oct. 23).

¶The U. 5. 5. Macon made a shipshape 70 hr. flight from Lakehurst, N. J. across the southern states to Sunnyvale, Calif., near San Francisco, where she was berthed at her new base, Moffett Field. The Lakehurst station will be kept open for training in the metalclad airship ZMC-2...

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