ZEPPELIN’S RETURN

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1929, Page 5

ZEPPELIN’S RETURN

ATLANTIC JOURNEY STARTED PROGRESS REPORTS (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Recd. Sept. 2, 11 a.m.). NEW YORK, September 1 The Graf Zeppelin, which was forced to postpone a midnight start for Friedrichshaven due to cross winds, finally left Lakehurst at 5.20 this morning. Three thousand onlookers remained all night and cheered the departure. The officers still believed they could make a round the world record between Germany and the return. Eckener witnessed the. departure. The weather is favourable. The British steamer Carlton, 15 point 39 G.M.T., reported the dirigible was flying low. Everything was apparently going well, at 39 north 69 point 15 west. LATER— The Graf Zeppelin advised the Navy Department that she was 6.30 miles due east of Cape Henlopen, New Jersey, at three o’clock this afternoon. The average speed since the start has been 84 miles an hour.

The dirigible gave no further information and will continue while within range of Arlington Radio Station to communicate once every four hours.

“ENDURANCE” TRAGEDY.

NEW YORK, August 31.

At Cleveland, Thomas G. Reid, of Downey (California) won a new world’s record solo endurance flight record last night, clipping Lieut. Fahy’s mark of 36 hours 25 minutes 34 seconds. Then, soon after he had passed the mark, the sound of his plane was not heard above the airport, and this morning searchers found Reid’s wrecked plane scattered widely, and discovered Reid’s terribly battered body in the Lorain Woods, west of the City. Apparently Reid fell asleep,, and then crashed into a tree. Reid was married in California only the day before he left for the races here, and he planned to break the record and use the prize money to take his bride on a delayed but extended honeymoon. LADY HEATH’S PROGRESS NEW YORK, August 31. Lady Heath continues to recover, and her doctors are virtually certain that her health will be completely restored and that she will suffer no permanent ill effects. LATER— Lady Heath lapsed into semi-con-sciousness to-night. Her temperature however, dropped to one hundred. NEW GERMAN ENGINE BERLIN, August 31. A Junkers aeroplane fitted with a new type of engine, burning heavy oil, flew from Dessan to Cologne, in three hours without a hitch. PILOT BRAIN WINS. BRISBANE, September 1. The Queensland Air Derby was again won by the modest intrepid airman, Pilot L. J. Brain, who snatched a victory from D. S. Adair by seconds.