Megías, Jerónimo;
Blanco-Belmonte, Marcos Rafael (pref.)
- LA PRIMERA VUELTA AL MUNDO EN
EL «GRAF ZEPPELIN»:
15 Agosto - 4 Septiembre 1929,
Madrid: Hauser y Menet, 1930.
XXI, 138 p., 1 map., 4 h., 1 lam. ; 28 cm - Brochado.
Picos de acidez nas capas de brochura; pequenas e ténues esparsas manchas no interior; contém o mapa desdobrável da rota; um caderno por abrir; miolo limpo.
Las ilustraciones fotográñcas son originales de los señores: V. Perckhammer, Berlín; V. Eschwe Lichberg, Berlin; Geisenheyner, Frankfort; Conde de Strachwitz, Tokio; Metro Goldwin Mayer. Los Angeles; Shoevs; International News Photos; Underwood; International Newsreel; Gerher, Friedrichshafen; Wide World Photos; Hartmann.
El 28 de agosto de1929, el dirigible alemán Graff Zeppelin capitaneado por Hugo Eckener, se convierte en la primera nave voladora en dar la vuelta al mundo. El dirigible toma tierra en Lakehurst, Nueva Jersey, tras un viaje de 21 días durante los que ha recorrido cerca de 35.000 km en cinco tramos desde Lakehurst a Friedrichshafen, de Friedrichshafen a Tokio, deTokio a Los Ángeles, de Los Ángeles a Lakehurst, y luego de Lakehurt a Friedrichshafen de nuevo. Es el primer vuelo de pasajeros del mundo. Patrocinado por el editor de prensa estadounidense William Randolph Hearst, el magnate financiaría casi la mitad del coste del mismo a cambio de recibir una cobertura masiva del acontecimiento en los medios de comunicación en Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña. - in La Vanguardia
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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127) was a German passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. Named after the German airship pioneer Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a count (Graf) in the German nobility, it was conceived and operated by Dr. Hugo Eckener, the chairman of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.
Graf Zeppelin made 590 flights totalling almost 1.7 million kilometres (over 1 million miles). It was operated by a crew of 36, and could carry 24 passengers. It was the longest and largest airship in the world when it was built. It made the first circumnavigation of the world by airship, and the first nonstop crossing of the Pacific Ocean by air; its range was enhanced by its use of Blau gas as a fuel. It was built using funds raised by public subscription and from the German government, and its operating costs were offset by the sale of special postage stamps to collectors, the support of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, and cargo and passenger receipts.
After several long flights between 1928 and 1932, including one to the Arctic, Graf Zeppelin provided a commercial passenger and mail service between Germany and Brazil for five years. When the Nazi Party came to power, they used it as a propaganda tool. It was withdrawn from service after the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, and scrapped for military aircraft production in 1940.
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Round-the-world flight (1929)
The American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst's media empire paid half the cost of the project to fly Graf Zeppelin around the world, with four staff on the flight; Lady Hay Drummond-Hay, Karl von Wiegand, the Australian explorer Hubert Wilkins, and the cameraman Robert Hartmann. Drummond-Hay became the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air. Hearst stipulated that the flight in August 1929 officially start and finish at Lakehurst.[125][126] Round-the-world tickets were sold for almost $3000 (equivalent to $47,000 in 2021), but most participants had their costs paid for them. The flight's expenses were offset by the carriage of souvenir mail between Lakehurst, Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. A US franked letter flown on the whole trip from Lakehurst to Lakehurst required $3.55 (equivalent to $56 in 2021) in postage.
Graf Zeppelin set off from Lakehurst on 8 August, heading eastwards.The ship refuelled at Friedrichshafen, then continued across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Tokyo. After five days at a former German airship shed that had been removed from Jüterbog and rebuilt at Kasumigaura Naval Air Station, Graf Zeppelin continued across the Pacific to California. Eckener delayed crossing the coast at San Francisco's Golden Gate so as to come in near sunset for aesthetic effect.The ship landed at Mines Field in Los Angeles, completing the first ever nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean. The takeoff from Los Angeles was difficult because of high temperatures and an inversion layer. To lighten the ship, six crew were sent on to Lakehurst by aeroplane. The airship suffered minor damage from a tail strike and barely cleared electricity cables at the edge of the field.The Graf Zeppelin arrived back at Lakehurst from the west on the morning of 29 August, three weeks after it had departed to the east.
Flying time for the four Lakehurst to Lakehurst legs was 12 days, 12 hours, and 13 minutes; the entire circumnavigation (including stops) took 21 days, 5 hours, and 31 minutes to cover 33,234 km (20,651 mi; 17,945 nmi). It was the fastest circumnavigation of the globe at the time.
Eckener became the tenth recipient and the third aviator to be awarded the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society, which he received on 27 March 1930 at the Washington Auditorium. Before returning to Germany, Eckener met President Herbert Hoover, and successfully lobbied the US Postmaster General for a special three-stamp issue (C-13, 14 & 15) for mail to be carried on the Europe-Pan American flight due to leave Germany in mid-May. Germany issued a commemorative coin celebrating the circumnavigation.
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