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...caught the eye of Fisherman Frank Mikuletzky as it nosed toward the fishing boat Doris May III. Suddenly, Mikuletzky shouted as the ZPG gently folded and dropped "like a sagging banana." Aboard the blimp, Crewman Antonio Contreras, 22, heard a blast, felt the airship nose over, and seconds later was fighting his way free into the water. Only two of his mates survived the unexplained crash with him. One crewman died after being pulled from the sea; 17 others drowned in their double-decked gondola under 15 fathoms. Later, the missing sloop was spotted by planes and a submarine...
Died. Roy Knabenshue, 83, aviation pioneer, member of the famed "Early Birds" (among others: Orville Wright, Igor Sikorsky, Glenn Martin), first to fly (in 1904) a motor-controlled airship in the U.S.; in Los Angeles...
...whose collected works probably do not contain a four-letter word, changed '"bloody" to "ruddy" and dropped his last name for fear his bosses would regard an off-hours fictioneer as "not a serious person." The peak of Shute's engineering career was his work on the airship R. 100, in which he made a triumphant transatlantic crossing to Canada and back in 1930. Short weeks later, an ill-fated sister ship, the R. 101, crashed and burned. Shute chalked the tragedy up to bureaucratic bungling, for which he conceived a lifelong, livid distaste. Engaged to be married...
...morning last week the Associated Press got a request by longdistance telephone from the Minneapolis Star: could A.P. take color pictures of General George C. Marshall's funeral, airship the developed film from Washington to Minneapolis that same night? The A.P. could and did. Next morning at 10:20, right on schedule, five big Star presses rolled. On Page One: a five-column, four-color picture showing the flag-draped casket and its uniformed pallbearers, the pearl-grey columns of Washington Cathedral, the green trees and the blue...
Died. Paul Weeks Litchfield, 83, topflight tire-and-rubber man and Akron civic leader, longtime president (1926-40) and board chairman (1930-58) of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., developer of the first pneumatic tires for airplanes, early dedicated apostle of airship travel, manufacturer of blimps and military airplanes; following surgery; in Phoenix, Ariz...