AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1936, Page 5

AVIATION

NEW ZEPPELIN

RAPID ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

NEW YORK, May 9.

The Zeppelin Hindenburg was moored pt Lakehurst at 6.16 o’clock this morning, thus completing her first commercial north trans-Atlantic" flight in the unofficial time of sixty-one hours and forty-six minutes.

At one o’clock on Saturday morning, radio reports indicated that the Zeppelin had passed the Nantuckett Lightship, and was within., three hours” cruising distance of New York.

It arrived over Lower New York afive o’clock: It flew in a majestic sweep over Manhattan to loud acclaim from the whistles of the harbour craft.

It was just before dawn as the giant craft nosed its way up Broadway, and a few were awake to witness its arrival as the airship turned and flew across the North River towards Lakehurst.

The liner Bremen played a powerful searchlight on the swastikas decorating the Zeppelin’s fins.

airman on leave

(Received this day at 11 a.m.) PARRS, May 10. Drouillet, the runaway airman, has been granted 1 provisional liberty.