Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-02
COUNT ZEPPELIN
LANDS UNHURT
SAILS IN AIRSHIP III MILES
IN FlVE'HOURS
LANDS SAFELY 48 MILES FROM
STARTING POINT
Making Landing Without Injury in
Gale Blowing Thirty-five Miles Is
Considered Remarkable by
Witnesses
rRv Associated Press

who landed safely in his airship today,
after a thrilling battle in the clouds
with contrary winds, passed the night
close to where his craft landed on a
marshy tract, forty-eight miles north
east of Munich.
He took up quarters in the automo-
bile of Count Won Oberstadt, president
of the Bavarian Automobile club,
which was especially built for camping
out.
AS soon as it was known that Count
Zeppelin had landed, troops hurried up
from various sections to render as
sistance. A battalion of infantry and
three squadrons of heavy cavalry We're
the first to arrive on the scene. Later
came the balloon corps from Munich,
having with them gas and apparatus
for the reflling of the balloon If neces-
sary.
Great crowds of people flocked to the
scene, and they remained beside the
airship until long after nightfall.
Count Zeppelin's feat in safely land
ing in a gale that was blowing about
thirty-five miles an hour is highly
praised by aeronauts who have tried
the experiment He was DESTROYS of
but the wind increased in violence,
and it was impossible for him to do so.
Count Zeppelin, however intends TO
resume his voyage early tomorrow
morning, and will make another at
tempt to land at Munich.
Airship Leaves Early
The airship left Flriederichshafen
early this morning and five hours later
appeared in the air over the outskirts
of Munich. A distance of Ill miles
was covered in five hours.
The count left Friederichshafen with
the intention of trying to sail from
there to Munich and back. 1t was his
intention to land here in the presence
of the prince regent and the entire
garrison of Munich, but in consequence
of the squally and increasing wind the
maneuvers were impossible. An at
tempt was made over the parade
grounds outside the city, but as soon
as it was seen to be impossible the
ship lifted again.
The count then tried to return TO
Munich, but by this time the wind
was SO strong he could make no head
way and it was noticed that the air.
ship was being driven sideways down
the wind.
When the seriousness Of the situa-
ton was realized troops were ordered
out to follow the airship, and these
prepared to render any assistance pos
sible. The count tried to overcome the
resistance of the wind by rising to a
greater altitude, but this maneuver APP
parently was not successful, for the
balloon was driven rapidly from the
sight of the people of Munich in a
northeasterly direction. At 11:15, two
hours after its first appearance, the
airship was over Freysing.
Military in Balloon
The airship is manned by Count
Zeppelin, Major Sperling, several OIL
GERS of the engineer corps and a crew
of soldiers from the balloon battalion
of the German army.
The balloon left F'riederichshafen at
4:O5 o'clock. The ship passed over
Friederichshafen at an altitude OF
1000 feet at moderate speed and turned
in the direction of Munich. Ravens
burg, Aulenberg, Erbach, Bielsbrach
and Augsburg, points between Fried
erichshafen and Munich, were bril-
liantly lighted with electricity in order
to show the aero-navigators the d1rec-
ton in which they wanted to travel.
When the airship was sighted short
ly before 9 o'clock approaching Munich
the church bells of the city rang out In
peaIs of welcome and cannonS hred a
salute. AS the ship drew nearer the
whir of the motor could be heard on
the streets of the city. The vessel
made it's way to a point over the ex-
position grounds and descended to
within 300 feet. Thousands of people
had gathered on the grounds and the
maneuver was greeted with an out
burst of cheering. The prince regent
of Bavaria was present and saluted
Count Zeppelin, who stood upon the
bridge. A band played the national
anthem.
The airship then moved off In the
direction of the palace, where 1t was
greeted from the tower by the prin-
cesses of the royal family.
Landshut is thirty miles northeast
NJ Munich. The next large town in the
direction of the fight is Straubing,
thirty-fve miles from Landshut. The
Austrian frontier, marked by a range
of mountains called the Commentaries
is thirty miles beyond Straubing.
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