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...compact little Curtiss fighter, "the smallest plane which could be built around a 420-hp. Whirlwind," one of five built for the Navy for installation within the airship Akron...
Coincidentally Navy orders went to Commander Alger H. Dresel, lately commanding officer of the U. S. S. Los Angeles, to take command of the U. S. S. Akron, relieving Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl. There was no ignominy for famed Commander Rosendahl in the transfer. Like all other Navy airship officers he must take his tour of sea duty (he will be aboard the battle flagship West Virginia) to qualify for promotion...
Last week Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, revealed that the airship ZRS-5 abuilding, sister ship of the Akron, will be named the Macon. His reasons: "It is a good short name of a thriving southern community, the name of a famous revolutionary general,*and it has the same number of letters as Akron. It also gives the South representation as the Akron does the Middle West and the Los Angeles the West...
...story, Author Morley's yarn purports to be written by a serious-minded, middle-aged little Swiss who leaves his filing clerk's job with the League of Nations to take his wife and two sons on a pleasure cruise in an airliner. Over the Atlantic the airship runs into a frightful storm. Just in time the Robinsons abandon the crippled ship, are whipped away into the night on an air-raft. They come safely to rest on the mooring mast of the Empire State Building, still unfinished, which at first they take to be some kind of gigantic tree...
...Deeds of National City Co., board chairman, of International Zeppelin Corp., asked the Air Minister, the Marquess of Londonderry, for permission to use the air stations at Howden and Cardington (homes of the wrecked R-101 and dismantled R-101) as bases for Zeppelin Corp.'s projected transatlantic airship service...