HINDENBERG ARRIVES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 127, 11 May 1936, Page 6

HINDENBERG ARRIVES

First Commercial North Atlantic Flight. DRAWN AT NEW YORK. Press Association —Copyright. New York, May 9 The Zeppelin Hinclenberg moored at Lnkehurst at 6.1 G this morning, completing the first commercial north transatlantic flight in the unofficial time of <3l hours 4G minutes. At 1 o’clock on Saturday morning radio reports indicated that the Zeppelin had passed the Nantucket lightship »nd was within three hours’ cruising distance of New York. It arrived ovs; lower New York at 5 o’clock and flew in a majestic sweep over Manhattan tc loud acclaim from the whistles of harbour craft.

It was just before dawn as the giant craft nosed its way up Broadway anc few were awake to witness the arrival. As the airship turned and flew across North River towards Lakehurst the liner Bremen played a powerful searchlight on the swastikas decorating the Zeppelin’s fins.