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...Akron survivor, was his pupil. When the Shenandoah broke from her moorings in a 70-mi, gale with 21 men aboard, it was Capt. Heinen who brought her back, damaged but whole. His contract expired in 1924 and he left Navy employ following bitter controversies with high officers over airship practice. Three years ago he formed a company to build and sell "air yachts" (four-passenger blimps) for $10,000 each. The scheme failed. Currently he lives at Lakewood, N. J., frequently breaks into print as an oracle on airship matters. Last week he had a chance to augment...
...inquiry room was formed by hanging large curtains of green "ground cloth" at one end of the barren gas-cell shop. White airship fabric draped the dais, where sat Rear Admiral Henry Varnum Butler, commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, president of the court...
Public Confidence. Lighter-than-air enthusiasts would have welcomed evidence of sabotage, even of mishandling, to offset public conclusion that an airship is not to be trusted in a storm. For the Akron had been accepted as the answer to the stupendous list of airship casualties which had preceded...
...witness. On the bridge of the German tanker Phœbus, butting the storm under ballast, stood Capt. Dalldorf, taking a turn himself on the second mate's midnight watch. Gazing upward at the ugly sky, he saw, to his astonishment, the flashing red & green lights of an airship...
...entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous, 63-year-old seadog who commanded the U. S. S. Chester during the U. S. occupation of Veracruz in 1914, and who later became the virtual custodian of the Navy's airship program...