| 1907/01/19 |
Harold Gustav Dick is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had two years of German in high school in Lawrence taught by a teacher name O'Leary. |
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| 1927/07/28 |
ROTC certificate is awarded to Harold "Hal" Dick for the Air Corps Advanced Course, Langley Field, VA. |
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Hampton |
Virginia |
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| 1928/00/00 |
Harold Dick graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. HGD teaches there for one year. |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, MA |
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| 1929/01/21 |
Harold Dick receives a telegram offering him a job at Goodyear Tire and Rubber of Akron, Ohio. |
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| 1930/00/00 |
Harold Dick earns his pilot licenses in free-balloon and blimp flight. Both were signed by Orville Wright. |
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| 1931/00/00 |
Harold Dick is transferred to the Goodyear Zeppelin Corp, a subsidiary of Goodyear Tire and Rubber, where he works in project design during construction of the USS Macon. |
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Goodyear Airdock |
Akron, OH |
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Fate of the USS Macon |
| 1932/00/00 |
Harold Dick attends airship ground school at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1931-1932. |
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Hangar No 1, Lakehurst Naval Air Station |
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst |
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| 1934/05/00 |
As Goodyear's liason, HGD travels to the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen, Germany. He is to study the Graf Zeppelin and monitor the construction of the Hindenburg, reporting directly to the president of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corp. |
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| 1935/00/00 |
Over the next five years HGD will cross the Atlantic 12 times in the Graf Zeppelin, 4 times in the Hindenburg, and made 6 trips over the North Atlantic in the Hindenburg to Lakehurst, New Jersey. |
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Hangar No 1, Lakehurst Naval Air Station |
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst |
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| 1936/00/00 |
Due to his friendly relationship with Luftschiffbau Zeppelin personnel, the Reich Air Ministry prohibits Dick from studying airships on an official basis, but he does continue to have free access to the airship plant. |
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| 1936/03/04 |
The Hindenburg makes its first test flight from the Zeppelin dockyards at Friedrichshafen with 87 aboard, including Zeppelin chairman, Dr Hugo Eckener, Lt Col Joachim Breithaupt of the German Air Ministry, Zeppelin's 8 airship captains. |
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Hindenburg Disaster |
| 1936/03/26 |
Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg begin a 3 day propaganda flight. The Hindenburg's fin is damaged on the first take-off. Guards confiscate cameras to avoid negative publicity, but Dick hides his in his jacket and is able to keep photos of the damage. |
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Hindenburg Disaster |
| 1936/03/31 |
Hindenburg departs Lowental for Rio de Janeiro. After a 100 hour and 40 minute flight, the airship lands in Rio on April 4th. |
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Hindenburg Disaster |
| 1936/05/06 |
LZ-129 Hindenburg lifts off from Friedrichshafen for American, the first airliner to provide regularly-scheduled service between Europe and North America. |
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Hindenburg Disaster |
| 1937/04/12 |
Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. |
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Westminster Abbey, London |
London |
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Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth |
| 1937/05/03 |
Harold Dick cancels his upcoming flight on the Hindenburg to brief his American boss on the current state of the airships. His boss's visit was a surprised. |
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Hindenburg Disaster |
| 1938/11/14 |
Graf Zeppelin II is christened and flies the first time. Only Zeppelin Company officials and Hermann Goring are present, Hal Dick was not allowed to take part. |
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| 1938/12/00 |
After more restrictions are put in place against Hal Dick, he leaves Germany and returns to the United States. |
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| 1945/11/00 |
Hal Dick manages Goodyear's Midwest aeronautical sales of aircraft wheels, brakes and tires to the Army Air Force until November 1945. Sales included a tire and brake contract with the Army Air Force at Wright Field, Ohio. |
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base |
Ohio |
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| 1946/00/00 |
HGD leaves Goodyear, moves to Kansas. For more than 50 years Dick lived in Eastborough. In Wichita, he worked as the President of Wichita Ponca Canvas Products, as a member of the local school board, on the City Council and Mayor of Eastborough. |
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| 1986/00/00 |
Harold Gustav Dick co-authors with Douglas H Robinson "The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg", published by the Smithsonian Institution Press. |
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| 1986/00/00 |
Harold Dick is ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church at age 79. |
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| 1992/00/00 |
HGD serves as a technical advisor on the documentary Hindenburg: An American Story (Jim Meyers Film Enterprises, El Cajon, CA, 1992). |
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| 1997/09/03 |
Harold Gustav Dick dies. |
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