Word: airships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pole, they had made observations in Arctic meteorology, oceanography, magnetology and marine biology. To help with the rescue, the semirigid dirigible V6 started out from Moscow. To Leningrad and beyond, the flight was uneventful. In the mountainous Kandalaksha region near the White Sea, a heavy snowstorm enveloped the airship. Radio communication stopped. Searching parties found the wreckage after a 24-hour hunt. Thirteen of the crew, including the commander, were dead. Three of six survivors were injured...
...applied and its share for 1938 is 17,900,000 cubic feet, enough to fill the LZ-130's 7,000,000-odd cubic foot gas bag and compensate it for the loss of about 300,000 cubic feet each time it crosses the Atlantic on the airship's projected 18 round trips this year. As helium costs about 1? per cubic foot to produce and is sold by the Government at an estimated 1¼? per cubic foot, each completed trip will cost the LZ-130 at least $6,000 for helium alone...
...stand, Commander Rosendahl woodenly reviewed the course of the disaster, confessed he was mystified by it. Afterward he unbent to reporters, uttered thoughts that must have rushed through many heads when the 803-ft. airship suddenly spouted flame...
...week after the fire officials chugged down New York Bay to meet the Europa, bringing sad-eyed Dr. Hugo Eckener to help the investigation. Saying little, the world's No. 1 airship expert poked about the twisted girders of his greatest zeppelin, talked to survivors, watched the newsreels for the first time, took an active part in the inquiry...
...Stern of Carnegie Institute of Technology observed that hydrogen Drotons escaping through a small aperture become ionized, or build up a small positive electric charge, through the friction of their escape. Hydrogen burns on contact with oxygen. The presence of a slight negative charge of static electricity in the airship fabric or in the air might thus cause a spark sufficient to start the fire. Zeppelin men scouted this idea, however, pointing out that many a German airship came back from bombing London shot full of holes which caused no hydrogen fire...