Graf Zeppelin Arrives in USA After 93-hour Dash from Germany

From the Prelinger Archives, this Kinograms Newsreel shot at Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1928, shows the Graf Zeppelin reaching  the United States after 93 hours of flight.

The most successful zeppelin ever built, LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin flew more than a million miles on 590 flights, carrying over 34,000 passengers without a single injury.

During its nine year career, Graf Zeppelin made the first commercial passenger flight across the Atlantic, the first commercial passenger flight around the world, flew a scientific mission over the North Pole, made the first regularly scheduled transatlantic passenger crossings by air, and aroused intense public enthusiasm around the globe.

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