Notícia da revista inglesa "Flight", 27 de Junho de 1935, onde se dá conta do espectáculo dado em 1935 pelo dirigível alemão "Conde Zeppelin" (na foto de cima) em Lisboa:
"A Plea from Portugal
On June 10 the Graf Zeppelin was diverted from her normal course .from South America and passed over Cintra and Lisbon. At Cintra (where people had been waiting to see the airship since 8 a.m. and she arrived just after 7 p.m.) she dropped her mail by parachute. It was picked up by a waiting Heinkel He7o and hurried off to Seville, there to resume its normal route to Germany.
The Graf Zeppelin circled slowly over Lisbon at 400 feet, and the scenes in the busy streets (it was the middle of the Lisbon Festivals) were indescribable. Our Lisbon Correspondent comments: What propaganda ! What advertisement! What showmanship ! When will British constructors learn to do similar things? It is true that the Germans will never, in our time, sell any airships to Portugal. Nor is it likely that any H.P. 42 aircraft will ever find a market in this country. But why—oh why!—do not the British make a bit of a noise? (...)"
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