Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-19
CRAFT MAKES
81 Miles PER
HOUR ONTRIP
Eckener Plans to Begin
Flight Across Pacific
to Los Angeles.

TOKYO, Aug. l9.-P)-The Graf
Zeppelin, giant liner OF the air,
landed at Kasumigaura airport. 40
miles northeast of Tokyo. at 6:27
p. m. today OPT a. m. Pacific STAN
dard time completing the most per-
ilous trip Of its globe circling Jour-
ney. the flight of nearly 1000 miles
from Friedrichshafen. Germany, In
approximately l02 hours.
The dirigible. fresh from a jaunt
Of 6,432 miles across eastern Europe,
Siberian Tundra and Asiatic noun
tain land, arrived " this city at
ABS D. m. (2:35 a. m. Z. S. I'd just
one minute more thans 100 hour
from the time it left Friedrichsha-
fen. Germany. Thursday 4:34 a. m,
Q0:34 D.. m. Wednesday z. s. To.
After appearing over Tokyo and
Yokthaina the Graf fastened back
to Kasumigaura. naval airport. and
at 6:27 p. m, in the cool Of the set
ting sun. was grounded. It had been
in the air 101 hour. So minutes and
had travelled approximately $500
miles.
The appearance over Tokyo
marked unofficially at least. end of
the second lap Of the Zeppelin's
round-the-world tour which began
at Lakehurst. ". j., 10:40 p. m. F..
S. T.. Wednesday August 4. with
the first lap completed Saturday.
August 10 at 7:03 a. m. with land
ing at Friedrichshafen. The 4.200
miles was covered in SIS hours and
"a minutes.
Ahead OF the Graf Zeppelin lay
two more laps before completion OF
its world tour. from Tokyo to Los
Angeles-which as the Graf flies
should be about $40 miles-and
from Los Angeles TO Lakehurs,
about 1870 miles total.
The average speed of the Zeppelin
from Friedrichshafen to Tokyo was
tust In excess OF "a miles an hour.
This. when ii is considered that but
three Of the dirigible's five motors
we're kept running during most OF
the trip. was exceptionally good and
about Is miles per hour in excess
Of what DR.. Hugo Eckener, the yep
pelin's master, had estimated 1t
would make.
Aboard the zeppelin were sixty
persons, 20 crew and officers end 20
passengers of whom Lady Grace
Drummond Hay was the only wo-
man. With the exception OF a knick-
knack or two. including q bust OF
Baron Ehrenfeld. there was no
freight. other than $4,000 pieces OF
mail. the revenue from which
brought the zeppelin nearly as many
dollars.
The zeppelin's sighting over To-
kyo occurred Just As mir.utes after
ii circled the giant Japanese han
gar at Kasumigaura. the japanese
air station. The dirigible remained
but a few moments over Kasumi-
eauro and then headed for Tokyo,
capital of the land Of the Rising
Sun. to while away the hours until
evening when a drop in the temper
ature would permit landing.
Rain and fog on the last Q miles
of her Journey brought a slight al
teration in the zeppelin's course and
DELAYED its arrival several hours pc
vond early estimates. After leaving
the Siberian mainland she flew wen
down the west coast Of Hokkaido.
northernmost Of the main Islands OF
the Japanese group.
Alters Course
AT point about $50 mics from her
goal and slightly east of Cape Ka-
mui, DR.. Eckener requested permis-
sion of the communications minis
try to alter his curse because OF
bad weather in the direction OF Sal
do islands. west Of Honshu.
He asked to cross the southwest
ern arm of Hokkaido in the direc-
ton of Shiriya on the main island
He then followed the eastern coast
Of Honshu down to the CAPITAL. pass
ing over Shiogama. at 1850 r. m
ui:4O d. MD to the hangar await
ing tne ship. 40 miles away. The
permission was given Immediately
blasts of sirens and factory whis-
ties announced that the zeppeiin
had been sighted over TOKYO
Crowds Of office workers and others
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