1st aerial stowaway found on Graf Zeppelin...
ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York October 30, 1928.
- D-LZ127 Graf Zeppelin German airship
- 1st Transatlantic flight (trip home)
- Clarence Terhune- stowaway discovered
- World's First Aerial stowaway
The front page has a two column headline: "ZEPPELIN DRIVEN BY WIND, REPORTED MID ATLANTIC ON FAR NORTHERLY COURSE" with subheads and related photo.
And page 2 has a two column heading: "Boy Stowaway Aboard Graf Zeppelin 'Gate Crasher,' New York To Nome" with subhead and related map. (see images)
Complete with 26 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, generally nice.
Background: In October 1928, 19-year-old golf caddie Clarence Terhune cemented his place in aviation history as the world's first transoceanic airship stowaway after sneaking aboard the massive German dirigible LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst, New Jersey, to win a local bet. Hiding in the mail compartment during its return flight to Friedrichshafen, Germany, Terhune was discovered mid-Atlantic and promptly put to work peeling potatoes and washing dishes to earn his keep. Though briefly detained upon landing for entering the country without a passport, his sheer audacity captivated the international press, transforming him into an overnight celebrity inundated with fan mail, job offers, and marriage proposals before returning home to the U.S. in style aboard the ocean liner SS Île-de-France.