![]() ![]() A wonderful, light balloon was at their disposal. They had the support of the US Army (and the Goodyear-company). Charles Dollfus was still young, they did not believe he would be capable to win. Could the French be serious opponents? Blanchet was at the Gordon Bennett Race for the fifth time, but never in front. Never before they had heard of Otto Bertram and he was still 45 years of age. Eimermacher? His balloon was not the lightest, he himself also had his 200 pounds, this allowed the Americans to take on board almost ten bags of ballast more. And his junior did not yet have enough perseverance, as it was proven the year before. Demuyter from Belgium was not there, who else could steal the success? The Germans again? Well, Kaulen senior had performed a good fight the year before, but he had changed his co-pilot. They had won twice in a row in 1910, when Hans Gericke ruined the final possession of the cup for them. This newspaper was right: The United States really wanted to know about it this year. ![]() Only somebody who has once seen the interest of the whole American world in the Gordon Bennett Race, can estimate, how much ambition and what a stimulation is given to the individual pilots of every nation by the sympathising with the interest of the population." American time, and we Germans, especially we from the Münsterland, have all reasons to commemorate this hour, at about 10:30 in the evening, with our best wishes. Beginning of launch will probably be fixed at 4 p.m. "In all nations today the eyes look with the most tension to the two million people in the city of Detroit, where once again the most famous of all races, the Gordon Bennett Race of the air, will have its beginning in the evening hours. At home, the attention on the event is again drawn to readers of the newspapers, the "Münsterische Anzeiger" written on June 30th: Just in time, one day before launch, the weather turns and promises improvement. No reason therefore, to flee too often from the hotel room on the 49th floor of the sky scraper on the Detroit River. They had two weeks to America, and in these two weeks, there was always the same "lousily weather", as Eimermacher called it without any glossing over. The special dinner to honour the Gordon Bennett competitors (Caviar on ice, turtle soup, cooked salmon from the Rhine, asparagus stalks, pheasant a la Alsacienne and bombe glace Reliance) on Sunday, June 17thunfortunately met only a few admirers. This did not matter to Hugo Kaulen junior as long as he could ask a female person to dance, but balloonmeister Zurwonne was lost in his cabin for four days. Not more than 40 passengers were on board and experienced quite stormy sea. Together the two German teams took the steamboat RELIANCE from Hamburg to New York, which was little occupied from Cherbourg on. Already the preparations of the German teams were watched by the press extensively, Ferdinand Eimermacher had a talent for "public relations". ![]() In Germany, especially in the "Münsterland", the permission for German balloons to return to the Gordon Bennett Races, had created a state of balloon euphoria. (The Gordon Bennett Races) by Ulrich Hohmann Sr Start: Detroit, Airport Henry Ford, June 30thįrom the Book: Die Gordon Bennett Ballon Rennen Voting Guidelines and Meeting Administration.FAI Medico-Physiological Commission (CIMP).FAI Microlight and Paramotor Commission (CIMA).FAI Hang Gliding and Paragliding Commission (CIVL).FAI Astronautic Records Commission (ICARE).FAI Amateur-Built and Experimental Aircraft Commission (CIACA).FAI General Air Sports Commission (CASI).Amateur-Built and Experimental Aircraft (CIACA).Amateur Built and Experimental Aircraft. ![]()
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