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...flight was made in January over Scott Field (Belleville, Ill.). Newspaper reporters, having attended the uneventful christening party the fortnight before, took no notice when Lieutenant O. B. Anderson piloted the ship from her hangar and pointed her nose aloft. They did not hear how, warned by radio of approaching high winds, the RS-1 interrupted a flight of four hours and made for home; how, when she settled earthward and was being dragged indoors with ropes, the northwest wind so increased that she was buffeted about like a dory in breakers, until Lieutenant Anderson ordered the engines started...
...Lakehurst, N. J., in the very hangar where the Shenandoah's great body used to lie at rest, a naval court of inquiry met last week to determine the cause of her destruction, to ascertain why she was rent in two in mid air, while her control car went dashing to the ground to carry to death her Commander, Zachary Lansdowne, and many of his officers and men (TIME, Sept. 14, AERONAUTICS...
...dirigible must always remain expensive; to make the gas cells tight, gold beater's skin must be used, made of the blind gut of oxen; and a herd of 50,000 is needed to supply the material for one airship; a dirig- ible hangar must be a monstrous affair, big enough to house a cathe- dral...
...over their heads a great silver shape that flew south as the birds were flying, as the grey geese, the sleek ducks that leave their marshy beds and beat away with the frost at their backs. The Shenandoah it was, which had on that cool morning left its hangar at Lakehurst to start on the longest flight ever attempted by an airship...
...events was dedicated to both the pioneering Wright brothers.! Orville Wright, on the scene, mused: "As I stand . . . where our earlier experiments were conducted and see how the principles of flight we used 21 years ago are still being used, I am extremely proud." Nearby stood the first airplane hangar erected in the U. S.; and in it the machine, a biplane with a 12-horse motor and antique arm controls, in which the Wrights effected the first heavier-than-air flight at Kittyhawk, N. C, in 1903. Scores pilgrimaged to this aeronautical shrine, the door of which was blotted...