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...Washington the House Patents Committee heard Roy W. Knabenshue, pioneer airshipman, allege that acid had been poured on the late great Macon's girders and guy-wires by the Filipino mess-boy who lost his life in the airship crash. Though Commander Wiley pooh-poohed the suggestion, high Navy officials admitted sabotage was a "distinct possibility...
...that day and the next the Macon cruised down the rough, ragged shoreline while battleships and cruisers sported about on the Pacific below her. Off Santa Monica there was wind and rain but the airship had often bucked worse weather without trouble. By the time the Macon was ready to turn around and start for home, the little storm was practically over and the air had cleared enough for persons on shore to see her red and green lights flashing through the dusk...
March 1933, at the great Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock at Akron, Ohio. A high-school band blaring "Dixie." Lines of shivering spectators on the cold concrete. Mrs. William Adger Moffett on the arm of her husband, Rear Admiral Moffett, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. Eight pretty girls from Macon, Ga. The huge silver bow of the ZRS-5-. . . Mrs. Moffett mounted a bunting-draped platform, pulled a red-white-&-blue cord. Two hatches in the airship's nose flopped open and out flew 48 startled pigeons. Cried Mrs. Moffett: "I christen thee Macon!"* Mighty cheers...
...years ago, for reasons of economy, the Navy airship Los Angeles was decommissioned, stripped of engines and helium, placed in dead storage at Lakehurst, N. J. Last week, all skin & bones, the 10-year-old "L. A." was declared unfit for further flight because of deterioration of her metal structure. Of the world's rigid dirigible airships she was the first to die of natural...
Again, although France abandoned the rigid airship after the loss of the Dixmude, and England followed suit when the R101 fell in flames in France on its maiden voyage to India, Germany, the home of old Count Zeppelin and the country where this type of craft first saw the light of day, has been going ahead steadily and has established a remarkable safety record. The innumerable long distance flights of the Graft Zeppelin without a single serious accident, and the fact that the German-built Los Angeles is the only ship that has survived the vagaries of American airship commanders...