Word: lakehurst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before casting off for her last flight, the Akron was scheduled for extensive repairs, involving one of the girders which the enlisted men saw snap as she crashed. Nevertheless "she was as sound as when she first arrived in Lakehurst...
Such was the welter of testimony- plausible, contradictory, inconclusive-before the Naval Court of Inquiry when it adjourned last week from Lakehurst Naval Air Station to Washington Navy Yard. The court was moved to the Capital because witnesses were required to appear also before the joint Congressional investigating committee which convenes this week...
...with Beard. Shortly before the court left Lakehurst, in walked a startling little man, forehead bald as a bullet, and sat himself in the witness chair. Piercing blue eyes blazed above a pickled Mephistophelian profile-long, hooked nose and pointed reddish beard. He was Captain Anton Heinen who began testing and flying Zeppelins in Germany in 1910. He flew the Bodensee between Berlin and Friedrichshafen with clocklike regularity and claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years piloting. The U. S. Navy hired him in 1922 to help supervise construction of the Shenandoah...
...master), Commander Berry (last skipper of the Los Angeles). Lieut.-Commander MacLellan and Col. Alfred Masury, Army reserve officer and vice president of Mack Trucks Inc. Also they found the water-soaked logbook of Lieut. Hammond J. Dugan, which was immediately put on an airplane and flown to Lakehurst where sat a Naval Court of Inquiry into the disaster...
...second subject of inquiry by the Naval Court was the crash of the little Navy blimp J3, which used to nestle under the great ventral fin of the Akron, in the Lakehurst dock, like an egg about to be hatched. The J-3 was sent out into dirty weather with a crew of seven in her open gondola, on the report that Akron survivors had been sighted clinging to bits of wreckage off Barnegat. Thrashed by the gale, she was forced to drop into the pounding surf whence a small amphibian of the New York Police picked two officers, three...