Norfolk, Va., May 9—At 9 o’clock the dirigible ‘Los Angeles’ was about 95 miles south of Wilmington, N.C., with all going well according to a radio message from the commander of the ship picked up here shortly after 9 o’clock.
The navy dirigible, sailing homeward from Porto Rico by way of Miami and the Atlantic Coast, is due in Lakehurst, N.J. late this afternoon or this evening. The airship left Porto Rico yesterday afternoon to complete the first round of a airship between the American continent and Porto Rico.
It starting the flight homeward, Captain Steele planned to follow the Atlantic seaboard instead of sailing in a more direct airline to Lakehurst than he did on his southward journey.
Advices from San Juan say that Captain Steele regards the flight to the island a complete success as demonstrating the practicability of commercial dirigibles in this service under almost any kind of weather conditions. . . . .
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Sunday morning, May 10, 1925. Puerto Rico was spelled Porto Rico in the 1920s.
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