Word: airship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return to Paris, the Special French Navy Commission, which had been studying the Dixmude disaster on the spot, reported definitely that the airship was struck by lightning when it was 7,000 feet up at 2 o'clock in the morning...
Fire blackened wreckage, a gasoline tank, pieces of rubberized cloth, is all that has appeared of the Dixmude (TIME, Jan. 7) on the surface of the water. Bitter controversy as to the cause of the tragedy has so far produced no enlightening facts. American and British airship projects are in no wise to be altered-experts in both countries claim that structural weakness of the Dixmude, hastily built in wartime, is to blame, that better ships are now being built. The French, on the other hand, are likely to abandon all their work in such craft, concentrat- ing on supremacy...
...Dixmude, originally known as the L-72, was completed at the great airship works at Friedrichshafen, Germany, at the signing of the armistice. It had a cruising radius of 9,500 miles, a tank capacity of 11,000 gallons. Turned over to the French by the terms of the armistice, it was the pride of the French Air Service and held the world's duration and range record (TIME...
...fisherman. No log among the few papers in his pockets, the failure of any carrier pigeons to return, a gleam of light seen off the coast of Sicily about the time that de Granadan's watch stopped led to the supposition that the disabled airship collapsed and exploded suddenly at her end, carrying 48 brave men to their death...
...method (used at the Lakehurst, N. J., airship station) is by passing the helium over charcoal at a low temperature, resulting in absorption of extraneous gases, leaving nearly 100% pure helium. Helium can be liquefied by cold, and is easily stored in that condition. A laboratory in Toronto is turning out liquid helium for military purposes...