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...Angeles, pride of the Navy, only rigid airship† in the U. S., is going to have two sisters. Last week, a judging board of the Navy announced that the designs submitted by Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron, Ohio, a subsidiary of potent Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., are better than those of a half dozen competitors.* It seemed almost certain that Goodyear would be awarded the contracts for the two airships, that work would begin this autumn and the first new giant silver cigar would take the air in 1930. Goodyear quoted $7,950,000 as the price...
...word dirigible is popularly and inaccurately used to refer to a rigid airship. Correctly, dirigible is an adjective describing any lighter-than-air craft with a propelling and steering system. *One of the competitors is American Brown Boveri Electric Corp., which employs famed Capt. Anton Heinen, designer of several Zeppelins and the ill-fated Shenandoah...
...whom the medal had been cast was no happy man. Pain twitched his broken leg. Enemies were reviling him as, "That Coward Nobile! The first airship captain who was first to leave his ship!" (TIME, July...
...present expedition's airship, now lost. †The Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile dirigible (TIME...
...passenger. $37,500 was the fare she had paid him to transport her, Catherine, decadent American college girl, from the Eiffel Tower to Java, and Philip, her (chief) lover. Meanwhile Eric served very nicely as more than pilot. It became necessary to draw the curtains of the airship, but the Italian populace continued to applaud hilariously, their gondolas created a serious traffic jam, and "the horses on St. Mark's, not content with winking, were stamping and frisking their tails; the winged lion was heard to laugh lecherously." Once in the jungles of Java, Catherine forgot her Norseman...