Word: nonrigid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like their colleagues overseas and on the same day, airship pilots of the U. S. Army Air Service had their troubles with a huge gas bag, in this case the TC-3, a nonrigid twin-motored airship of only 200,000 cu. ft., scarcely one-tenth the volume of the R-33. Sailing from Scott Field, III., the TC3 broke her rudder at Caseyville, Ill., soon after going aloft. For two hours, she drifted at the will of the wind, then negotiated a landing at Black Walnut, Mo., little the worse for wear...
...great rigid dirigibles do not roll or pitch as much as the smaller "Blimps" or nonrigid airships, but they develop a peculiar squirming, twisting motion and they always give a sensation of violent strain, with the hull quite plainly laboring under the force of the wind...
...largest nonrigid dirigible" of the Army Air Service, made a first cross-country flight of 500 miles from Akron, Ohio, to Belleville, Ill. " Safe but seasick " is the report of the officers and crew...