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...Affairs Committee last week gave a clean bill of health to the U. S. S. Akron which it had investigated on charges of faulty construction (TIME, Feb. 8). Such flaws as had occurred were long ago corrected by Navy inspectors, the committee reported. As for the 18,000 lb. overweight, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. had paid its penalty...
...inquiry, demanded by Navy-heckling Representative James V. McClintic of Oklahoma, was concerned with the fact that the Akron was 19,181 Ib. overweight and 3 m. p. h. underspeed, and with the McDonald-Underwood charges that her frame was loosely riveted and contained defective metal...
According to Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of Naval Aeronautics, the Akron's overweight was largely due to extra strengthening "and doesn't materially affect performance." New propellers will bring her speed up to 72 knots. The Akron is "the best ship ever constructed," insisted the Admiral.* On the more spectacular charge of flimsy construction, Secretary E. C. Davidson of the International Association of Machinists testified that McDonald and Underwood, employes on the job. had brought him confidential information of faulty duralumin and Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary...
Critics of the Navy's lighter-than-air policy, notably the New York Sun, made much of the facts that the Akron is 20,000 Ib. overweight and that she can fly only 79 m.p.h. instead of 84, as specified. Of the overweight, Navy & builders replied that they foresaw and announced it last summer (TIME, July 20); that it was caused by deliberate increase of strength and safety factor, partly by changes in Navy specifications; that it amounts to only 3% of the total weight and will not materially affect the ship's performance. The $25,000 penalty...
Navy, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is liable for a penalty of $5 per Ib. for overweight up to 5,000 Ib., but last week it was questionable whether a penalty would be assessed since some of the excess may be chargeable to changes in Navy specifications. Said Rear Admiral William A. Moffett: "The Akron has been splendidly constructed, better than any dirigible within our knowledge. The slight excess in her weight ... is a direct conversion into increased safety and military factors...