AERONAUTICS: Los Angeles to Lakehurst

The Graf Zeppelin, Dr. Hugo Eckener commanding, completed her world flight at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station last week. The distance traveled: some 19,000 miles. Time: 21 days, 7 hours.*

¶ Only nine passengers made the full Lakehurst-Lakehurst round trip. They were Karl von Wiegand (Hearst correspondent), Sir George Hubert Wilkins (Hearst correspondent), Lady Grace Drummond lay (Hearst correspondent), Robert Hartman (Hearst photographer), Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl (Hearst guest, U. S. Naval observer), Lieut. Jack C. Richardson (U. S. Naval observer), William B....

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