[Rarebooks] FS: 1954 World-Record Naval Airship Flight

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18. [Record-Breakers!!]  Notebook of Items from 1954 World-Record Naval 
Airship Flight.

An interesting archive from a world-record flight from May 17 to 25th, 
1954, by the airship ZPG-2.
The airship, one of the N-class patrol airships operated by the US Navy 
between 1952 and 1957, left Lakehurst, New Jersey and ended up in Key 
West, Florida 200 hours later, without refueling. The US Navy’s website 
notes of the “Nan” airships- “One of their strong points was the ability 
to remain in the air for long periods of time. Every opportunity was 
taken to demonstrate this unique capability and in the process many new 
records were established. The first of these was set in May 1954. A 
ZPG-2 airship under Commander Marion Eppes departed NAS Lakehurst for an 
endurance flight which took her north to Nova Scotia, east to Bermuda 
and then south to Nassau, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. The 
airship landed at NAS Key West on May 25 with an elapsed time of 200.1 
hours in the air. It was a notable achievement and Cdr. Eppes was 
awarded the Harmon International Trophy for his achievement”. This 
archive includes 16 airship-flown postal covers from the flight, 2 
mimeographed flight schedules, flight observation cards, a section of 
the weather map carried on the flight, an official US Navy photo of the 
airship, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other related material.
Covers, cards, photo, etc. Minor soil, light wear.  [42950]  $250



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