ZEPPELIN’S ARRIVAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1929, Page 5

ZEPPELIN’S ARRIVAL

GREAT RECORD ACHIEVED

OFFICERS’ STATEMENTS

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)

(Recd. August 30, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 29.

The Zeppelin completed the world voyage, arriving at Lakehurst this morning. She covered twenty thousand miles in twenty-one days, seven and a-half hours. From Los Angeles to Lakehurst took fifty hours. All the crew of the Zeppelin are enthusiastic over the voyage. Eckener announced that the dirigible would leave Lakehurst for Friedrichshaven at midnight on Saturday, under the command of Captain Ernest Lehmann, as Eckener was going to Washington to confer with Goodyear Zeppelin officials. Lieut. Richardson told of the astonishment of the people who saw the Zeppelin, in distant countries. “When the people whom we saw on the ground sighted us, they were frightened, and almost without exception ran away, as if the ship were a monster.” Captain Lehmann, who since the war has been the principal aide of Eckener, refused to speak of his war-time services, but on being asked if he bombed London during he war, replied gravely: “I did, several times. Once I brought home a Zeppelin with four hundred bullet holes in the fabric.” LADY HEATH’S MISHAP NEW YORK, August 29. At Cleveland (Ohio) Lady Mary Heath, British pilot, was seriously injured to-day when her plane crashed. LATER. After her machine had crashed, Lady Heath was taken to hospital, unconscious. The plane crashed into a. building, and was wrecked, being embedded in the roof. Workmen released Lady Heath with difficulty from the cockpit. The mechanic escaped serious injury. Lady Heath’s condition is critical. She has a fractured skull and probably internal injuries. GYROSCOPE’S POWERS. NEW YORK, August 29. Au Aerial Exposition is expected at Los Angeles, when five Blimp machines and an endurance plane which has been up for a week, will fly to meet the Graf Zeppelin. It is also hoped that Senor Juan De Lacierva, the Spanish inventor, will fly his gyroscope to meet the dirigible. At Cirva, he amazed the crowds with his performances in the gyroscope, showing a high speed, a stationary positibn in the air, and an ability to drop on a bulls’-eye marked in Los Angeles. For the first time in public, he hooked flying planes from the air, held them for a short period,, and then released them.

PRINCE’S PROGRESS.

RUGBY, August 27.

The “Daily Mail” states that the Prince of Wales, who has been flying regularly for some years, and has often handled the controls in the air, has now become a competent • air pilot and has recently made frequent flights in company with Squadron Leader Don, who has the reputation of being one of the cleverest and safest English pilots.

MARLBORO’ PILOTS.

BLENHEIM, August 27.

The Marlborough, Aero Club’s second batch of trainee pilots were tested to-day by Major Isitt, Director of Air Services, for a class ticket. Eight candidates took the air. All were successful. Their names are: Miss P. Burnett (second club-trained lady pilot in the Dominion), Messrs W. Barry, C. A. MacDonald, E. Y. Penny, E. S. Holdaway, D. A. G. Gordon, R. H. Jackson and J. Vavasour.

CANTERBURY ART UNION.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 29.

The Canterbury Aero Club which now has a membership of 395, decided to-night to order a new Moth aeroplane. It was reported that as the Club was receiving no money from the Aero Club art union, the Club had applied jointly with the Dunedin Club for a permit for a South Island art union.