Word: lakehurst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, coolly declared that airships had no demonstrable military value, flying qualities aside. Congressman Harter pleaded for re-employment at Goodyear-Zeppelin factory in Akron, Mr. Dingell for Detroit's metal-clads, Mr. Sutphin for adequate training at Lakehurst. Congress casually passed the buck to Mr. Roosevelt: if he wished, he could spend up to $3,000,000 for a ship about half the size of the Akron and Macon. Having consulted Thomas Edison's son, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, the President last week authorized...
Lately transferred to sea duty, he left behind at Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station 17 lighter-than-air officers who putter about the sky in seven small blimps and one metalclad ship. Still inflated but confined to its mast or hangar at Lakehurst is the aging Los Angeles, available for ground training but banned from the air by the skeptical Navy high command. (The Army has given up even observation balloons, turned to autogyros...
Biggest is Goodyear, whose President Paul W. Litchfield plugged for dirigibles at a closed Congressional hearing last year. Public pleading for dirigibles is left to Congressman Dow Harter of Ohio. Congressman John Dingell of Detroit and William Sutphin of New Jersey (whose district includes Lakehurst) are also dutiful airship boosters...
...Berlin to Bathurst on the bulging coast of Africa, thence in Dornier DO-18s across the narrow South Atlantic to where South America bulges out to meet them at Natal, Brazil. Lufthansa one day will carry passengers on this route; until last year, when the Hindenburg burned up at Lakehurst, N. J., passengers could make the crossing any fortnight by Zeppelin...
This was bad news not only to helium-hungry Germany but to brave, energetic, 45-year-old Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, Swedish-descended, Chicago-born airship enthusiast and chief of Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station. Last week...