In October 1928 the Graf Zeppelin made its first intercontinental trip, a 9,926 km (6,168 mi). A 111 hour crossing from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst.
Dr. Eckener in command and Captain Ernst Lehmann served as First Officer on the flight.
Despite encountering heavy headwinds and stormy weather, Dr. Eckener had repeated the success of his first transatlantic crossing four years earlier. Then he delivered the LZ-126 to the U.S. Navy in October 1924, and was welcomed enthusiastically then both with a "ticker tape" parade in New York and a subsequent invitation to the White House.
The Graf crossed the U.S. coast at Cape Charles, Virginia, around 10 am on October 15, passed over Washington, D.C., at 12:20 pm. Baltimore at 1 pm, Philadelphia at 2:40 pm, New York City at 4 pm, and landed at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station at 5:38 pm.
After an almost two week stay in the United States, during which time its damaged tail was repaired, the Graf left Lakehurst for Germany at 1:24 am on October 29 and arrived back in Friedrichshafen shortly before dawn on November 1.
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