Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn test flight was conducted, with the expert counsel of General Superintendent William H. Collins, who became pigeon-conscious when launching ships for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Two dozen racing homers from the coops of Tire-Builder Frank Eisentrout were released in the dock. They flapped gladly, promptly homeward. So impressive was the demonstration that the number of christening pigeons was raised...
After her first upping, a hundred-&-one details of internal construction will be completed and the Akron may be hauled out by her mobile mooring mast for a first test flight late this month. Yet to be finished are such equipment as the controls of the steering and elevating surfaces; the radio, designed to transmit over a 6,000-mi. range; the telephone system of 18 instruments; the system for electric power control throughout the whole ship by a switchboard weighing only 200 lb.; the crew's quarters within the envelope. These items, like all others that went into...
...starboard side, crew's on the port. Each room is about 8 by 10 ft., fitted with two pairs of double-decked, canvas-bottomed bunks and locker space. Ordinarily two watches of men will be carried, two men sharing a bunk in turn to save weight. (Normal flight crew of the Akron: eleven officers & 8 men plus pilots of planes carried aboard.) An innovation on dirigibles: each room has a floor register to admit hot air from the engine rooms...
...personages who were to attend the christening, four were most acutely concerned: quiet, young Commander Rosendahl, about to receive the Akron as his command, a veteran of 3,333 hr. dirigible flight; Dr. Arnstein, gentle-mannered, owlish, designer of the ship, who deprecated the celebration as "boasting before the baby actually walks"; hardbitten Admiral Moffett who won the $8,000,000 authorization for the Akron and her sister (ZRS-5) in the face of terrific opposition aroused by the Shenandoah disaster; and Goodyear-Zeppelin's President Paul Weeks Litchfield...
Just before taking off from Friedrichshafen Dr. Eckener made a public explanation that the flight was imposing no burden of expense upon the German Republic. Three-fourths of the cost is being borne by foreign scientific bodies, he said; the remainder by stamp collectors...