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...Crewmen go to their stations within the ship's envelope, each performing his first duty of searching a prescribed area for stowaways. Then, with the ship moored in midfield, the first flight guests climb up the little stairway into the control cabin: Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls, Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zepplin, his vice president Designer Karl Arnstein, and many another. In all there are 113 persons aboard, more than a dirigible has ever carried...
...this winter. Less than an hour after the fuel tanks were filled, fire broke out in the auxiliary engine room, jumped to the left wing, exploded the gasoline in the wing tank before the five men aboard knew what had happened. The four crewmen, led by Pilot Horst Merz, well aware that thousands of gallons of gasoline lay in the deep bottom tanks, seized fire extinguishers and attacked the great tower of flame that shot from the wing. They quenched it without the aid of volunteers who came scurrying across the bay in small boats from the Portuguese naval...
While in Princeton, the crewmen will make their headquarters at the Cottage Club and take their meals at the Princeton training table. Practice will be held twice daily, morning and afternoon, and it is understood that no races of any kind will be held with the Princeton crews. The men will return to Cambridge on Sunday...