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...British airship R-33, sister ship of the famous K34 which crossed the Atlantic in 1920, repeated, last week, the feat of the U. S. airship Shenandoah, which, last year, went on an unintentional voyage (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The R33 was moored to the mast at Pulham airdrome in Norfolk, England, during one of the worst gales known to the windswept English coast. Under the terrific pull of a 50-mile-an-hour wind, she tore away the arm of the mooring mast. The damage inflicted was even worse than in the case of the, Shenandoah. The first...
...plunged wildly down by the bow, then nosed up with equal violence. To on, lookers from the ground, the great ship appeared doomed. Fortunately, she had an efficient crew of 20 men on board and two days' fuel. Lieutenant Booth, , the officer in charge, had never commanded an airship before. Within two minutes after the accident, he had two engines running, the wireless in operation, and the airship in complete control. With the British gunboat Godetia to guide her, with every vessel in the North Sea alert, the airship fought a tremendous fight for 30 hours. In touch by wireless...
...Hugo Eckener (TIME, Oct. 27), onetime German pilot of the ZR3 (now the Los Angeles (TIME, Dec. 8), before the Royal Aeronautical Society of London, last week, presented an interesting estimate of the commercial possibilities of airship travel based upon the service of three large airships for regular Atlantic crossings. The approximate cost of each trip would be $50,000, while the revenue would be something like $80,000 from 25 to 30 passengers (at a rate of about $5 for each pound avoirdupois), $15,000 from mails and $20,000 from baggage and express packages, leaving a neat profit...
...does the interest of the two Fords in aeronautics end there. They are also backing with large sums of money the Aircraft Development Corporation, which is building the first all-metal airship ever planned. The fabric covering of the ordinary airship is here replaced by a thin covering of sheet duraluminum, perhaps not more than eight thousandths of an inch in thickness, and weighing scarcely more than the usual rubberized fabric. Such a metal covering would render an airship impervious to weather and constitutes a great progress in the art of airship building...
...return journey, with constant requests for compass directions, did not hinder the Los Angeles from keeping up a steady clip of 50 miles an hour or so; and, at 12:36 on Sunday morning, the great airship was back at Lakehurst...