Word: nonrigid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macon made a shipshape 70 hr. flight from Lakehurst, N. J. across the southern states to Sunnyvale, Calif., near San Francisco, where she was berthed at her new base, Moffett Field. The Lakehurst station will be kept open for training in the metalclad airship ZMC-2 and nonrigid ships...
...Three miles from Akron is Wingfoot Lake, home base of Goodyear's fleet of baby blimps. There last week a silver bubble floated in the sky. small enough to be an egg of the mammoth Macon, yet bigger than any nonrigid airship heretofore built in the U. S. The bubble was the TC-13, just built by Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks...