Word: airships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planned and thoroughly equipped Arctic expedition ever assembled." His twin objects were "new lands for the United States and an airway across the top of the world." Furthermore, he wanted to prove that an airplane costing about $25,000 had a special utility of its own as against an airship costing about...
...smoothly southward -off Cape Charles, Savannah, Jacksonville, Daytona. Night watchers at Nassau, British Bahamas, thought that they saw her bulk. Then she was a little south of Cuba, then off Jamaica. The trade winds fanned her ahead at a 90 m. p. h. scoot, and at last she, the airship Los Angeles, was at her goal, France Field, Panama Canal Zone. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl had put his airboat across 2,265 miles in 40 hours, her longest non-stop flight since she left Germany (TIME...
...agreement between the Governments of France and Canada and the Governments of Japan and Canada, it is proposed that each of these countries shall be represented in the other by a Minister pleni-potentiary." 2) "To assist in the development of transoceanic air routes, a site for an airship base has been purchased near Montreal. An airship mooring tower will be erected, and a public air terminal for airplanes provided." 3) "Among other important matters to which your attention will be invited will be measures providing for more favorable trade relations between Canada and . . . foreign countries...
Naval bigwigs congratulated Com-mander Charles E. Rosendahl of the Los Angeles exultantly. The test proving that floating filling stations are feasible, widened immeasurable the range of dirigible utility. Commercial dirigible interests eagerly proclaimed that transoceanic airship travel was a more immediate probability now that dirigibles may nose safely down to the vast smooth expanse of landing deck superimposed on aircraft mother ships. The flying deck of the Saratoga is 880 ft. long; the Los Angeles...
Climaxed by an account of the flight of the airship Norge over the North Pole, it works up to a denunciation of the Italian skipper, Umberto Nobile, who piloted the ship. ". . . This hired skipper of a Norwegian ship owned by an American and myself shall not be permitted to usurp honors that do not belong to him. This record is written to prevent...