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...Airships are fine! We need more of 'em. But they have got to be handled by people with some common sense. The Akron disaster was a classic example of thick-headedness and incompetency. There is only one capable airship commander in this country, and that is Rosendahl. He's a good man, but they've got him out at sea on board a battleship, while a lot of inexperienced pups fool around with the Macon...
...ever the Navy's great airship, the U. S. S. Macan, should be wrenched apart by a line squall as the Shenandoah was nine years ago or come to a catastrophic end in the sea as the Akron did last year, the officer who on the basis of past performance will have the best chance of survival is round-faced Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. "Doc" Wiley was aboard the Shenandoah when it broke over Ohio. "Doc" Wiley was aboard the Akron when it crashed off the New Jersey coast, the only officer to escape...
...Century's turn Walter Wellman was an adventuring journalist. Having discovered the exact landing place of Columbus, and led two unsuccessful searches for the North Pole, he persuaded Publisher Frank B. Noyes in 1906 to put up $75,000 for an airship flight to the Pole. The money paid for the dirigible America I, in which Explorer Wellman & party collided with a glacier. Two years later America II also got into trouble. Before America II could make another try, Peary reached the Pole afoot and Explorer Wellman lost interest. However, his Arctic experience enabled him to sense, prove...
Jerome C. Hunsaker, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at M. I. T., will give a talk entitled "The Development of Airships," at 7.30 o'clock this evening in Pierce 110. Professor Hunsaker is a former naval airship designer, having made the plans for the Akron and the Shenandoah. The talk, sponsored by the Engineering Society, will be followed by an informal discussion...
After sundown one day last week an airplane slipped in to a landing at "Round Hill," the South Dartmouth, Mass, estate of Hetty Green's stamp-collecting, air-minded son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green. It taxied up close to a capacious airship dock, and out of it stepped President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice President Vannevar Bush of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...