Around The World By Zeppelin

Documentary Film which uses the letters and diaries of passenger Lady Grace DrummondHay and archival footage to document the Graf Zeppelin airships circumnavigation of the globe in 1929 In 1928 Lady Drummond managed to secure a place aboard the Graf Zeppelin airship as it made its historic crossing of the North Atlantic in 1928 This was the first transatlantic commercial passenger flightThe Graf Zeppelin left Friedrichshafen in southern Germany in the early morning of October 11 1928 It arrived at Lakehurst New Jersey four days later with a flight time of 111 hours and 44 minutes