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Among U. S. dirigibles the RS-1 is second in size only to the Los Angeles.? She is 282 ft. long with capacity for 719,000 cu. ft. of gas. Four 300-h. p. Liberty motors propel her. She belongs to the U. S. Army; was built in Akron, Ohio, by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...Angeles, length 654 ft., has a capacity of 2,500,000 cu. ft. The Shenandoah, wrecked last summer, was 680 ft. long; capacity 2,150,000 cu...
...Cathedral of (Earning (University of Pittsburgh) : 14,460,000 cu. ft. of space for $10,000,000, of which the brochure of Pittsburgh's skyscraper-to-be said: "To plant the spirit of achievement, ... by a great high building ... to interpret the spirit of Pittsburgh ... to build a memorial to the achievers of Pittsburgh" (TIME, Nov. 17). Loafer: "The soul in cubic feet. Achievement by tonnage. Unquestioning faith in millionaires and land-values. Gothic doodads for moments of sentiment...
Like their colleagues overseas and on the same day, airship pilots of the U. S. Army Air Service had their troubles with a huge gas bag, in this case the TC-3, a nonrigid twin-motored airship of only 200,000 cu. ft., scarcely one-tenth the volume of the R-33. Sailing from Scott Field, III., the TC3 broke her rudder at Caseyville, Ill., soon after going aloft. For two hours, she drifted at the will of the wind, then negotiated a landing at Black Walnut, Mo., little the worse for wear...
...damage that Lieutenant Douglas Johnson had to report was financial. To make a landing, he had to valve his helium; the cost was about $14,400, since the gas is valued at approximately $80 per 1,000 cu. ft. Totally deflated, the TC3 was ignominiously brought back to Scott Field on an Army truck...