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...naval officers including famed Lieut.-Commander Rosendahl; editors including Arthur Brisbane and Joseph Medill Patterson; heavier-than-air experts including Col. Lindbergh and Brigadier-General William ("Billy") Mitchell, the joint Congressional committee on the Akron disaster last week gave a bill-of-health to the Navy's airship- program, saw in it "further potential utility to be developed only by experience." Prime recommendations...
...airship should be built to replace the Akron and a new training ship should also be built...
Secretary of the Navy Swanson transmitted the court's opinion to the Joint Congressional Committee which was to begin taking testimony this week. The Navy Department last week announced that the airship base at Sunnyvale, Calif, shall be named Moffett Field...
...Conjecture," As airship enthusiasts feared, and as critics predicted, the Naval Court of Inquiry into the Akron disaster, held at Washington Navy Yard, adjourned last week on a note of inconclusiveness. The court had yet to make its official finding, but the summation by Judge Advocate Lieut.-Commander Ralph G. Pennoyer was popularly regarded as prophetic. Said he: "If any action taken can in the light of hindsight be termed 'errors of judgment.' clearly they were without negligence or culpability. This disaster is part of the price which must inevitably be paid in the development...
...Three miles from Akron is Wingfoot Lake, home base of Goodyear's fleet of baby blimps. There last week a silver bubble floated in the sky. small enough to be an egg of the mammoth Macon, yet bigger than any nonrigid airship heretofore built in the U. S. The bubble was the TC-13, just built by Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks...