Word: lakehurst
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...method (used at the Lakehurst, N. J., airship station) is by passing the helium over charcoal at a low temperature, resulting in absorption of extraneous gases, leaving nearly 100% pure helium. Helium can be liquefied by cold, and is easily stored in that condition. A laboratory in Toronto is turning out liquid helium for military purposes...
...made fast to a mooring mast. With Captain Frank R. McCrary and Captain Anton Heinen, the German engineer-pilot, in charge, the Shenandoah, her nose about 200 feet above the ground, glided towards the apex of a huge mooring mast which stands some 1,500 feet west of the Lakehurst hangar. As the dirigible approached the mast, it dropped a steel cable. A ground crew of three officers and 15 men seized the cable and fastened it to another cable attached to the mast. A windlass in the mooring mast hauled the cable upwards and taking out its slack drew...
...yesterday hundreds of members of the University saw the Navy dirigible Shenandoah, the largest aircraft in the world, pass over Cambridge on its 700 mile cruise from Lakehurst, New Jersey, to central New England. The huge silver airship was first seen from Harvard Square as it floated over East Cambridge. At the time the Shenandoah was reported to be logging 58 knots, or considerable more than 60 miles an hour. By 12.50 o'clock it had passed out of sight beyond Belmont...
...American ZR-1-to be christened appropriately Shenandoah or "Daughter of the Stars" by Mrs. Denby, wife of the Secretary of the Navy-made a pleasure trip to St. Louis to see the races, and returned to Lakehurst after an uneventful journey of 2,200 miles, at an average speed of some 60 miles an hour despite strong head winds...
...return trip from Chicago to Lakehurst, tests of gasoline consumption showed more than a mile to the gallon. The total fuel cost on this leg of the trip was $150, a fraction of the coal bill for a limited train. And she could have carried ten tons of cargo or passengers in addition to a crew...