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...Sale or scrapping of the expensive airship R-100; limit of expenditures on airships...
Original plans for the Akron prescribed a lift of 221,000 lb. for the airship herself, and capacity for a useful load of 182,000 Ib. Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics estimated that the ship will be 19,000 to 20,000 Ib. overweight. The exact figure cannot be determined until after the final strips of covering are applied to the envelope and the ship is "weighed off" with lifting gas. By its contract with...
Ralph Haxlett Upson, designer of the first successful metalclad airship, the ZMC-2 . . . Aeronautical Engineer...
...practically her whole staff of dirigible experts; it cost millions of dollars; worst of all, it cost public confidence in Britain's lighter-than-air program. Last week that loss was recorded in an announcement by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald that the Government had temporarily abandoned its airship building program...
...greatly surprised last fortnight when modest, youthful Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl was given the most coveted station in naval aeronautics: command of the nearly-completed Akron, largest dirigible in the world. A veteran of 3,333 hr. airship flight, a survivor of the storm-torn Shenandoah, he is indisputably the Navy's No. 1 lighter-than...