Word: lighter-than-air
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...Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl was given the most coveted station in naval aeronautics: command of the nearly-completed Akron, largest dirigible in the world. A veteran of 3,333 hr. airship flight, a survivor of the storm-torn Shenandoah, he is indisputably the Navy's No. 1 lighter-than-air...
Distressed was the British press, which had looked to the report for something to bolster the public's wavering faith in Britain's lighter-than-air program. Some thought they heard the knell of the dirigible in Britain's air service, began to talk of dismantling the R-100 which has lain idle in her hangar at Cardington since last year's unspectacular flight to Canada...
...morning, salvagers found the bodies, not one recognizable. Scrambled bones and a woman's slipper pointed to two stowaways, one perhaps an official's stenographer. Perhaps, however, a couple larking at the hill were caught under the wreck. The men who, against harsh opposition, had fought for a lighter-than-air program for the Empire were dead. Parts of the ship were scattered over five miles of terrain. The huge twisted skeleton was broken in half...
...Settle wrote what many an airman already knew: "There is only one bona fide airship engine in the world today- [Germany's] Maybach." Last week in his syndicated newspaper colyum, Calvin Coolidge blunderingly deplored: "A naval office reports that the best engine is made abroad," missing the lighter-than-air distinction. Navy officials protested. Had not the Navy been largely responsible for the development of the air-cooled motor for planes...
Banged and buffeted by storms that stood her on end and ripped her tail, the British dirigible R-100 last week completed, twelve hours later than expected, her long-deferred flight from Cardington, England to St. Hubert Airport, Montreal. Largest lighter-than-air craft in the world, fourth to fly the Atlantic, the R-100 made the crossing in 78 hr. 49 min.- She carried 37 officers & crew, seven passengers, including her designer, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney...