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engines of 817 
said Mr. Vani- 
Vaniman was 
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carrying capac- 
which the Akron 
named in com- 
was built to carry 
a crew of five men besides Vaniman himself and with a gas 
ity of 400,000 cubic feet. 
Mr 
with its four 
“A dirigible,” 
airship America, 
The dirigible Akron, 
peaceful 
the nations on earth, whatever 
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If it gets into a storm it goes just as fast as 
I will wait until a storm has developed on this coast and is well 
on its way toward Europe. Then I will run in behind it, and the Akron will 
be drawn by the storm at the same speed it is traveling.” 
The Wellman 
a teacher of music before he devoted himself to aeronautics. 
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and Frank A. Seiberling, the man who has financed his trans- 
United States of Christendom 
atlantic ballooning enterprise. 
be included under the 
the 
p'iment to the home town of the aviator’s “angel,” 
ator 
O Europe in sixty hours!’ is the slogan of Melvin Vaniman, the avi- 
‘is just like a feather. 
the storna. 
Vaniman’s Airsh 
Photos by American Press Association. 
replaced as the craft designed to make the first aerial trip across the ocean, 
was smaller and less powerful than the Akron, 
horsepower placed in the keel of the steel substructure and calculated to 
maintain a speed of thirty-six miles an hour. 
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