Word: lighter-than-air
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...Lighter-than-air craft made this news last week...
...terror at a huge rain-drenched silver mass that lurched over their heads and into a nearby hillside. They heard three thunderous explosions, saw a gigantic blinding blaze. It was the end of Britain's ill-fated R-101, the end of Britain's hopes about lighter-than-air craft. For in that roaring hillside furnace burned the bones of most of the men who had fought for the dirigible program: Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for Air; Sir William Sefton Brancker, Air Vice-Marshal and Director of Civil Aviation; the ship's designer...
...Washington, at Akron, in California, in New Jersey and in Friedrichshafen last week there was news of "LTA." the airman's abbreviation for lighter-than-air...
...regard to the future for lighter-than-air craft, Mr. Adams stated that it is unlikely as well as unwise that the navy will build more dirigibles until the "Macon" has been put under enough experiments to determine its worth. "There is much to be learned from experience with this ship. No one knows exactly how serious was the storm in which the 'Akron' met disaster...
Public Confidence. Lighter-than-air enthusiasts would have welcomed evidence of sabotage, even of mishandling, to offset public conclusion that an airship is not to be trusted in a storm. For the Akron had been accepted as the answer to the stupendous list of airship casualties which had preceded...