Evening star., 1924-09-07
'zR3SEC0ND TRIAL
is MARKED SUCCESS
Ship Remains in Air Nine
Hours Without Slightest
Sign of Trouble.
By Cable to The Star and New York World.
NnnYrIpht 1901

6y Cable to The Star and New York World.
- Copyright 1921
FRETDRICHSHAEEN September G.
The ZR-3 gave nine-hour thrill
unmarried by engine trouble to the
American newspaper men who were
her first nom military passengers to-
day. This trial flight, her second,
consisted of a trip to Stuttgart by the
way of Regensburg, Nurnberg and
Munich and return.
Four thousand people kept time to
the music of a reichswehr brass band,
part of the reichswehr guard of honor
of the ZR-3, as the craft scared into
the bleak gray of the sky. A dainty
lunch was served, but no drinks ap-
peared. Smoking is verboten.
A radio receiving set amused the
visitors, who heard the speech of
welcome made by President Bazille of
the federal State of Ruthenberg. The
words came very distinctly over the
ether. The dirigible will make a &C.
hour flight over north Germany and
Scandinavia on Wednesday, her final
European trip. before turning her
nose toward America.
Many Verboten Signs.
When the Zeppelin left her hangar
here today she had the imprint of her
German makers indelibly marked
upon her-in precise little "verboten"
signs distributed throughout the cab
ins.
The ZR-3. the first Zeppelin to
head for the shores of America, is
200 yards long, 81 high and % in
diameter. From the inside she seems
an enormous cucumber followed out
in miraculous fashion into ship.
Looking up at the ceiling, it is a
mass of stream wires and thin grid
ers which form the keel of the hull.
They seem the covering for new
tangled industrial machine. not so
much of the air as of the earth, for
when one is wandering about the in
side of the ship in her shed he has
the feeling this structure was never
meant to glide off with the winds.
The dirigible is made of heavy
cloth painted with white aluminium
paint so that cleaning in the early
morning sun, ii seemed to be all of
metal. Sitting inside, the light shone
dimly as through smoked glasses.
Everything Is Light.
The crew of % live in little tents
Of thin cloth between the wires and
~girderS. The beds are of incredible
lightness and aluminium alloy is used
even for the clothing cabinets. The
officers mess room has table of
to sit around it on the bench neatly
upholstered with corduroy. There is
an observation car made with nom
breakable substitute for glass.
Forward is a corridor with wash
rooms and a kitchen. The pasSen-
gers compartments are divided by
curtains. Each compartment con-
tains four berths. Here is where
the "verboten" signs come in, for
the passengers are warned not to
throw anything out of the windows.
The forward motors. Maibach en-
gines, hang free from the main body
of the Zeppelin in swinging gon
dolas. In each sits an engineer.
Fourteen gas cells, made from the
bladders of 100000 oxen are stuffed
into the hull. The bags are inflated
with hydrogen, although when the
IR-3 is delivered to the United
States. it is expected helium will be
used.
The German crew. headed by
Eckner, will deliver the airship. The
three Americans on the final flight
will be Capt. George Washington
Steele, Lieut.. Comdr. Sidney krauss
and Maj. Frank NJ. Kennedy.