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Before crossing the mountains of Arizona on her recent return from the Pacific Coast, U. S. S. Akron released two airplanes from her belly, cut 6,000 lb. from her load (TIME, June 27). Last week Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett revealed how the Akron is reversing that practice. When atmospheric conditions make it impossible for the ship to land without valving out part of her costly helium, her commander flashes a radio call for two combat planes. The planes fly out from Lakehurst, hook on to the Akron. The 6,000 lb. added ballast permits the ship to land...
White-headed Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett spent a night last week aboard the U. S. S. Akron while she cruised over the sea. In the morning, off Barnegat, N. J. he decided it was time for him to start for his office in Washington. Up from the control car he climbed into the envelope, then walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre...
According to Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of Naval Aeronautics, the Akron's overweight was largely due to extra strengthening "and doesn't materially affect performance." New propellers will bring her speed up to 72 knots. The Akron is "the best ship ever constructed," insisted the Admiral.* On the more spectacular charge of flimsy construction, Secretary E. C. Davidson of the International Association of Machinists testified that McDonald and Underwood, employes on the job. had brought him confidential information of faulty duralumin and Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary...
...each performing his first duty of searching a prescribed area for stowaways. Then, with the ship moored in midfield, the first flight guests climb up the little stairway into the control cabin: Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls, Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zepplin, his vice president Designer Karl Arnstein, and many another. In all there are 113 persons aboard, more than a dirigible has ever carried...
...projecting 75 ft. overhead, was to be a flag-draped wooden platform, festooned with microphones, crowded with bigwigs of the Navy and of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls and goldbraided Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; and big-framed, white-haired Paul Weeks Litchfield, president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., looking down on his two bald-headed vice presidents Dr. Karl Arnstein, builder of 70 Zeppelins for Germany, and Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker, U. S. N., retired, and his well...