Word: lakehurst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longest non-stop flight by a rigid dirigible is 5,066 mi., from Friederickshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, N.J., by the Zeppelin ZR3 (now the Los Angeles...
...Angeles. Slowly, cautiously, like the groundhog in February, the great Los Angeles thrust her monstrous grey stern-snout out of the hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Sniffs of the wind augured well for several days aloft. The motors roared and rumbled, the huge celestial torpedo pushed up for her first extended trip since last July. Heading southeast, Captain George W. Steele Jr. guided her out over Barnegat Bay, then down to Atlantic City and to Cape May through bumpy air seas. Over Barnegat Lighthouse some internal wires had snapped; a waterline had burst, from one of the steam-condensers...
...second time since the wreck of the Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14), the dirigible Los Angeles rose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., and headed south-east against an April wind. The early excursionists in Asbury Park and Point Pleasant saw her pass, a silver minnow loitering in the pale sky, and they looked at one another and talked stupidly about bolts of lightning, picturing the silver skin gutted and men blown down the night like seeds. Captain G. W. Steele Jr., however, and Lieutenant Commander Charles M. Rosendahl, who flew the ship, indulged in no such morbid associations...
...Burgess, an associate professor of aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was assigned a place in the RS-1's crew of 13 as technical observer. He had also been aboard the late Shenandoah that night in 1924 when she broke loose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J. (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924), and he described the forced flight of the RS-1 as "far more violent...
...Naval Supply Bill passed by the House last week provided for no new dirigible and proposed closing the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst...