Word: lakehurst
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Commander McCrary of the gigantic new ZR1, U. S. Navy, about to take a test run from Lakehurst, N. J., to St. Louis, was much impressed by the Dixmude's performance...
Fully inflated, ready in every detail, the enormous ZR-1 was slowly released from its cradle by the escape of 8 tons of water from its ballast tanks. Three hundred marines and sailors guided the immense bag across the shed at Lakehurst, N. J., and anchored it at the entrance. Exhaustive engine tests will precede the trial flight on Sept. 1, a momentous date for American aviation...
...huge ZR-1 at Lakehurst, N. J., is fully inflated and will make her trial flight on Sept. '1, probably at night when the air is calm. The ZR-3, a dirigible being built for the Navy by the Zeppelin Company at Friedrichshafen, Germany, is making equally good progress and will fly across the Atlantic in November to be housed likewise at Lakehurst...
...Lakehurst, a powerful dirigible is under construction, intended to sail over the Pole to Europe. Naval officers on board will complete the map of the vast polar spaces by means of photography. And regular commerce across the Pole is looked for soon after...