This week, Goodyear Blimp was spotted over El Paso, and many shared Blimp images on social media on Wednesday, August 13th.
According to Blimp mother, according to social media publications, it has also been noticed.
Without social media in 1929, El Pasoce climbed to the tops of the buildings and the congestion of picturesque driving on August 27 to examine the airship, Count Zeppelin, who was three times longer than the district court block.
Count Zeppelin was a German airship, carrying passengers, operating from 1928 to 1937. In 1929, he made a tour of the world covering 21,2500 miles, passing over El Paso.
Although GRAF did not stop here, El Passo prepared an air intake, “Fitting for such a large visitor.”
The German Dirig, Count Zeplin, crossed El Paso approximately 5:15 pm on August 27, 1929, while on a round flight, which took 21 days.
The whistles will blow when Count Zep is coming
August 26, 1928/El Paso Herald
El Pasoans will be advised for the GRAF Zeppelin approach to El Paso on Tuesday by blowing out the plants of the cement plant, the melting, the electricity company, the Peyton Packing Company and the shops. The Chamber of Commerce was arranged on Monday with the various industrial power plants for blowing the whistle. A wire was sent to demolize with the request of the trade officials of the Chamber of Commerce there, advise the El Paso Chamber of Commerce when Zeppelin passed over New Mexico City. The contact will also be organized with Fort Bliss, where a constant radio communication with the huge aircraft will be maintained. EL PASO aviation companies and private aircraft owners have been asked to meet the ship and accompany it to the city.
Dirigible passes over El Passo at 17:16 after a fun flight
El Pasoans give the airline great applause after waiting for the arrival throughout the day
August 28, 1929/El Paso Times
This is the five bike that droned their monotonous song of root power, Graf Zepplin sailed majestically across the plains of Western Texas last night, bound to Fort Worth in his continuous flight from Los Angeles to Lakehler, the last match of his round flight.
At midnight, approximately six hours after the huge plane sailed over El Paso, Big Springs, Texas, GRAF has just passed and has obviously continued straight to Fort Worth.
Earlier in the evening, Clint, Sierra Blanca, Van Horn, Pecos, Odessa and Midland reported that they were seeing Zeppplin. Their reports indicate that D -Rugo Ekcker, commander of the airship, follows the railway tracks in the South Pacific and Texas and the Pacific in Fort Worth.
Wait all day
In the flight diary of the D -R AMER, yesterday’s trip was just another entry, stating that the Count had fought hard winds through New Mexico and arrived in El Paso at 17:17, a few hours behind the graph.
But to the thousands of El Pasoans, who waited all day to see the ship, his arrival was a lifelong event. It led to the extreme hours of a permanent vigil, which began shortly after 8 am, which GRAF was initially planned to arrive.
The day was repulsive to viewers. Early in the morning, reports came that the ship had been delayed by the winds of the head and that its arrival would be approximately 11 am, later other tips from South Arizona and New Mexico came, saying that the ship was still fun and that it could not be expected in El Paso by the middle of the afternoon.
Finally, after hours of waiting, the large silver bag broke its nose around the corner of the Franklin mountains and sailed majestically over the city.
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Arrival spectacular
The first black spot against a blue and a white cloud background, and then a silver glitter, it came out of the west. For more than half an hour, El Pasoance, hundreds of whom have found views of vision monitoring in office buildings, have observed his coming. Dipping, the stain was turned into a fish with bullets with a bullet, germinating a transparent sky.
Fifteen minutes away from whistles, piercing and stormy, they announced their coming.
The greater and greater, as his black hill, five bikes rotating, passed directly over the Court of Justice, flying in the east direction.
By the way, Zeppelin is three times longer than the courtroom block.
El Pasoans, who was waiting for his arrival at 8, worried all day long and disappointed time after a while, as the new reports announced that the unfavorable winds were slowing down their time, squeezing to the roofs of buildings, other hundreds, many of which had been waiting from the early morning.
Look for a point of view
Many of those at the top of the buildings were equipped with binoculars and field glasses. The two republics, the southern Pacific mills, the buildings of the First National Bank and the hotels Paso del Norte and Husman were popular observation points. Several enthusiastic spectators even climbed the electric signs at the top of the hotel buildings.
The day was excitement and duration. One hundred imaginary and false alarms were heard. End pedestrians, hasty of officials and stenographers, could be seen at almost every hour of the day.
The speed of the German conductor, when he passed over the city, was unofficially rated 50 miles per hour.
Zep was accompanied by a group of planes from municipal and army airports from the moment it arrived in Columbus, NM until it passed through Islet.
For a long time, it can be reached at tlong@elpasotimes.com.
This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: El Pasoans Climb Buildings, the crowd of picturesque driving for views of Graf Zepplin