Show aeronautics acs spectacular of the MOST events in aeronautics wits tile flight of tile the huge gernian dirigible oraf graf zeppelin in august and septen Sept ber from roin to lakehurst t NJ anol and thence eastward around the wo world rid with only anti it at parted rich richs shat hafen ea tokyo los angeles Ante iea and on september 4 tho the hig dig ship arrived safety tit at its home port in Gerin tiny the alie trip was mode made without mishap though a severe storm was encountered soon after leaving jacim were ire laid to use the dirigible in arctic exploration the Athin atlantic tle was crossed three times by airplanes and iglesias Igl eslas of spain flew from seville to the brazilian coast late in march and in june three french pilots in the plane yellow bird crossed from roia old orchard beach me to the coast of spain next month williams and yancey american amergian flyers hopped off from roni old orchard beach forloine for Roine but they were forced to land near Sail santander tander spain nily by lack inck of gas later they completed their trip all other attempted transatlantic nights flights were failures s some of thena them tragedies setting new records all records for sustained light flight were broken in january by the army urmy plane question murk mark which remi remained tined up I 1 IW hours and 40 ini minutes being refueled in the air SO 36 times in may hilly was surpassed by arid and kelley of forth worth texas whose endurance flight lasted histed hours houm and 31 minutes in july ble mandell aridell and reinhart at U culver ul city calif put both records in the with a mark of hours and 43 tail minutes and then later in the like month dille jackson arid and forest olerine Oll rine in the st lorils platte plane settled the contest fur for the year by remaining for hours arid 21 aleut apollo sum fit of tile united states navy established a new attitude altitude revord reford of feet onit capt frank hawk flew front los I KR angeles to new ew york in 17 hours and 44 biln kites ita and nil george Il flaw alt w krom roin windsor out ont to havana in 12 hours anti and 56 minutes tile Sel inelder cup race for sea planes was won by lieutenant Licu tenant of england lins land who averaged miles nit hour over alie tittle course i A few days later A av 11 II orlebar drove the spine plane at the record speed ot of WAS nilles over in germany a plane propelled by rockets was given its first tryout fritz von opel lying flying 1 als l miles the rt ennana also hoaster of the biggest airplane aln lP the nox dox which made successful rights currying igil persona ali alif e male american rican national air races were held at cleveland in august in connection with them the women who were becoming yer very j active in aviel thin had tin air derby front from sarita monica calif to Clev cleveland plaud louise of was the winner winnerd the races for or 1030 were awarded to chicago col charles charlea A ai lendbergh was a busy buby mun during the year and after his to liisa anne morrow in may lie usually was accompanied on oil his flights by his bride in february tile hie colonel inaugurated the united air mall mail service and in september he and mrs lindbergh I opened another new route by sl a night flight from miami to paramaribo Para maribo dutch guiana oil on the way ta home me they stopped slopped to make mahe fit nights itts over the jungle pt f honduras and yucatan to pho hitherto unexplored aztec i niina M on thanksgiving day commander Itt eliard dyril byrd and three members of tits expedition made a difficult and hazardous airplane light over the tha krent antarctic plateau in tile the course of which they looped the south pot pole returning in safety to their base to in little elitle america byrd thus became the tha first lit st man to fly over both poles |