Not only is the set very even handed when it comes to sexes it is also commendably even handed when it comes to nationalities. Card 3 has Dr Eckener. He is illustrated next to the Hindenburg. I suppose it is a suprise to find him in the set because he is the pilot of an airship which is not the first aircraft which springs to mind and also because he was the fellow that trained all the wartime Zeppelin Pilots as the card informs us. The card also explains he had recently flown the airship around the world and made over 2000 voyages and regularly flew the route between Germany and South America on the New Graf Zeppelin Route.
Airships are such an interesting evolutionary backwater.
It would be grand to see airships floating in the skies once more in the same way ocean going cruises exist. Just because we filled them with rather volatile gas and they went up like candles once upon a time is like discounting ships because we used to have to row them. After the First World War he took it easier choosing to do his exploration by airship. Mind you trying to reach the North Pole by airship in 1925 could be considered more dangerous than going by foot. The card notes Amundsen tragically disappeared in 1928 when he set out from Alaska to find his friend Nobile.