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...Aeronautics of the Navy. He recommended a series of improvements in the naval air service including: 1) removing the legal limitation on the number of naval shore-stations devoted to heavier-than-air craft; 2) increasing the enlisted personnel of the naval air service; 3) establishment of an airship base on the Pacific coast; 4) replacement of the Shenandoah as soon as practicable with a ship of about twice her size; 5) a five year program of airplane and airship construction; 6) provision for adequate air stations at Coco Solo and Pearl Harbor; 7) improvement in aviation training-facilities...
Despite the fact that everyone except the wives and mothers of the men on board the PN9 No. 1?giant plane which vanished a fortnight ago, somewhere in the neighborhood of Hawaii?had come to the conclusion that the airship had sunk to the bottom of the Pacific or been crushed in its waves, rumors persisted that it had been found with all its crew alive. Such a message was picked up by an amateur radio operator...
Died. Commander Zachary Lansdowne, 39, of the Shenandoah and 13 other officers and enlisted men. members of the airship's crew; in southern Ohio, killed in performance of duty. (See Page...
...Director Duerr of the Zeppelin Co., said in Berlin: "No German airship ever broke in two in the air, but this has happened twice with English airships...
...airship, the Navy decided to educate the U S. public, beginning at the top. It took aboard the Los Angeles 33 leading citizens of the Philadelphia district and flew them around for seven hours. A first-class luncheon was provided...