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Christian D. D.
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—pp. 22-23: “For three generations there would be Parisians who believed that somehow Santos-Dumont had *both* the first dirigible and the first airplane in the air. They just couldn’t accept as a fact the uncivilized Wright brothers’ flight at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903…The Paris Herald itself said of the Wrights, ‘They are, in fact, either flyers or liars.’” [emphasis added]
— May 27, 2024 07:43AM
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Christian D. D.
is on page 81 of 278
“On Friday March 6, the LZ 129 as it was called in Germany, and the Hindenburg elsewhere, made a three-hour trial flight”—p. 78
Wow, Goebbels actually didn’t want the ship to bear the name of “the old grey man of the old regime.”
— Jul 21, 2024 10:01AM
Wow, Goebbels actually didn’t want the ship to bear the name of “the old grey man of the old regime.”
Christian D. D.
is on page 57 of 278
“Over Western Russia a soldier with an excess of Soviet xenophobia emptied his tommygun at the great silver airship, but only succeeded in puncturing a few gas cells which Chief Knorr easily repaired.”—p. 56
With an American-made submachine gun no less; oh, the irony!
— Jun 30, 2024 08:05AM
With an American-made submachine gun no less; oh, the irony!
Christian D. D.
is on page 51 of 278
“Although Jews might easily be proved the ‘spoilers of modesty,’ ‘the wreckers of good art,’ and ‘the secret influences behind the new industrial corporations,’ no one would go about hating the occupants of the nearby table, some of whom were, in fact, Jewish.”—p. 46
— Jun 02, 2024 10:28AM
