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...mooring mast. The populace had no chance to turn out again, nor government officials again to climb to the roof of Parliament, for she took her departure for Russia at midnight to escape rising winds. Over the Baltic Sea it was a cold, foggy night. Unprotected in the airship's gondola, unable even to sit down save on camp-stools or the keel, the staff made a bad night of it. About noon the fogs cleared, but radio communication with earth was lost. Dipping, the pilot dropped a note to gaping peasants: "Where are we? North or south...
...flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first leg of her Rome-to-Nome transpolar flight...
...Court of Inquiry into the wrecking of the Shenandoah adjourned last week?probably for good. If the Judge Advocate of the Court decides to call Colonel Mitchell a second time,* the Court may reconvene. The final testimony was that of experts as to wind stresses, strength of the airship's frame...
...praises of dirigibles (which is the major function of the article), Commander Lansdowne himself apparently answered the statements of those who said that he feared to go on the fatal trip on account of weather conditions. The article said: -"The airplane is now reasonably safe, and the great airship inflated with helium is beyond a doubt the safest method of travel known to man, taking precedence over walking on account of traffic congestion on the streets. ... In the air the airship is practically independent of weather, as storms with attendant high winds merely delay progress to windward. . . . Severe thunderstorms...
Meteorological experts were called and were generally of the opinion that there was no clear danger in the storm evident to those aboard the airship. Some thought that certain inferences of possible danger might have been drawn and the course of the ship changed as a precautionary measure, but they could not be certain...