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This was well before practical powered aircraft, but the object seen at Oakland was quickly named "the airship." It was soon seen in many other parts of California, where people lined up in the streets, hoping to catch a glimpse of it. Often it behaved exactly like a modern flying saucer, accelerating quickly and changing its direction suddenly...
During 1897, the "airship" was seen in many other parts of the U.S., including Salt Lake City, Denver and the Midwest. On April 10, reported the New York Herald, thousands of people in Chicago saw lights like an airship in the northwest. Some saw two cigar-shaped objects with green and red lights...
...first airship crossing of the Atlantic came in 1919 when the British R34 (using hydrogen instead of coal gas) took 4½ days to fly from the Firth of Forth to Mineola, Long Island...
...Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, polar explorer who used his share of a large family fortune io help finance many of his expeditions; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1926, only two days after Explorer Richard E. Byrd and Aviator Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole, Ellsworth, in the airship Norge, repeated the feat with veteran Explorer Roald Amundsen. In the 1930s he made two trips to Antarctica, claimed 381,000 square miles...
...award, to the outstanding aviator, aviatrix and aeronaut of the past decade: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, wartime boss of the Eighth Air Force, leader of the first Tokyo raid; Jacqueline Cochran, wartime head of WASP, and dirigible expert Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl (retired), wartime chief of Naval Airship Training...