Word: metalclad
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Pilots & Priests. On its delivery flight from Detroit to Lakehurst last week the metalclad dirigible ZMC-2 (TIME, Sept. 2) scared a team of horses at Kingston, N. J. The runaways threw their driver, one Calvin Petty, from his seat and dragged him. Dirigible Capt. William E. Kepner and his crew of two saw the accident, lowered their ship over St. Joseph...
There is another proposal, which has been considered chiefly as an alternative: to build a small metalclad dirigible costing about $300,000. If the makers in Detroit are willing to give suitable guarantees, Naval officials are about ready to agree to this proposal, pointing out however that the ship would be an experiment and too small for war purposes...