This trip around the world took place in August 1929, taking off at Lakehurst, New Jersey and arriving there again 21 days later, after stops in Friedrichshafen (Germany), Tokyo and Los Angeles.
From May 1924 the J-1 served at Lakehurst, and was at that time the Navy's only active blimp.
Abel Kiviat (1892–1991), silver medalist in the men's 1,500 m event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Test flights were made from the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in Lakehurst, New Jersey, making use of the long-established hangars for handling large airships.
Lakehurst | Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst | Hangar No. 1, Lakehurst Naval Air Station |
Rosendahl retired to Toms River, New Jersey in 1960 to write and to organize the Lighter-Than-Air Museum Association at Lakehurst.
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In October he was aboard the Graf as she made her first Atlantic crossing from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst.
Hangar No. 1, Lakehurst Naval Air Station, at US Naval Air Station Lakehurst, site of Hindenburg disaster
He played high school football for Pemberton Township High School, a small public school located in Pemberton Township in South Jersey a few miles from Fort Dix/McGuire Air Force Base.
Capt. Ernst Lehmann, who would be killed in the crash of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst eight and a half years later, served as First Officer on the flight and U.S. Navy LCDR Charles E. Rosendahl, commander of the ZR-3 USS Los Angeles (ex-LZ 126), made the westward journey during which he also stood watch as a regular ship's officer.
Returning to the United States in the autumn of 1940, Walton served successive tours of duty at the Marine barracks at Mare Island, Vallejo, California; the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey; Quantico, Virginia, and New River, North Carolina.
Also known as Maxfield Field, the host unit at Lakehurst is the United States Air Force 87th Air Base Wing (87 ABW).
As a consequence to the Hindenburg disaster on 6 May 1937 at Lakehurst Air Naval Station in New Jersey, USA, the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin requested to the Brazilian Government on 17 June 1937 the suspension of services.