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...hero. So was U.S. Captain Albert Berry when he made the first test parachute jump from an airplane in 1912. Since 1919 552 flyers have bailed out with parachutes, left their ships to rocket wildly to earth. A notable fall in this rain came in 1919 when the airship Wing foot Express burst into flames while flying over Chicago's business district. The two pilots parachuted away. The Wingfoot Express crashed through the skylight of Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, killing 13 bank employes. Much more frequent are accidents in which the pilot of a plane disabled over the city...
Five years ago Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, went to the rescue of the wrecked airship Italia commanded by General Umberto Nobile, whom he cordially disliked. A French navy seaplane bearing Amundsen and five companions started from Tromso, Norway, towards Spitsbergen. It was never seen again...
...Angeles, the Navy's only training airship, now in dead storage, should be recommissioned...
...Lakehurst Naval Air Station, instead of being decommissioned, should be the Navy's airship training centre...
...Airships should be assured "continuity of personnel." Only a highly trained officer who already had commanded a training ship should be given command of a regular airship. (This was prompted by the Navy's present routine of sending airship officers to sea; and by the fact that the late Captain McCord had never commanded an airship prior to the Akron. On the day the committee's report was published the Navy Department ordered Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. Wiley, Akron survivor...