New York Times 100 years ago today, June 10, 1913:
Makes the Trip from Baden-Baden in Half the Time of Fastest Train.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
VIENNA. June 9.— Accepting the invitation from Emperor Francis Joseph. Count Zeppelin with his dirigible balloon Sachsen paid a visit to Vienna to-day.
The Sachsen started from Baden-Baden at 5:30 o'clock in the morning and reached Vienna at 1:30 this afternoon.
After cruising twenty minutes over the capital, the airship took a straight course to Schönbrunn Castle, where it manoeuvred twenty minutes, saluting the Emperor, who was awaiting it. Thence the Sachsen proceeded to the Aspern Fields, where it landed smoothly.
Besides Count Zeppelin, his son and twenty-two other persons were on board the aircraft. The journey from Baden-Baden, which is about 430 miles, was made at an average speed of over 50 miles an hour. The express train from Baden-Baden to Vienna takes 16 1/2 hours.
Count Zeppelin is the Emperor's guest in Vienna.
The reception of the visitors on landing in the Aspern Fields was of an exclusively military character. Four hundred soldiers of the aviation brigades were present to help in the landing.
Two hours after the arrival of the airship a terrible storm swept over the Aspern Fields. The dirigible will leave without the Count for Berlin and Leipsic probably early to-morrow morning. It is the seventeenth Zeppelin ship, though not the largest or the fastest one, and is regarded as the most nearly perfect.
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