AERONAUTICS: Graf Zeppelin's Return

Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, retired brigadier-general of the New York National Guard. And while German crowds howled their hochs at the Graf Zeppelin's safe, record-breaking return, General Kincaid growled his grouch at U. S. aviation.

He had attended the recent International Aero Exhibition at Berlin. No U. S. aircraft were there, only two Whirlwind motors hidden in foreign planes and a picture book of other...

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