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After long, nearly fruitless years of laboring among the heathen, the Navy's No. 1 apostle of lighter-than-aircraft, Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, last week had hope of a new U.S. air fleet. At the Navy's LTA station at Lakehurst, N.J., he had a new 400,000-cu.-ft. blimp* called K3. It was the first new nonrigid airship Lakehurst had had in many a moon. After trial flights, K-3 will be ready for coastal patrol, the first of 48 blimps authorized by Congress, in a sudden appreciation of LTA. It was high time, thought...
...Rosendahl had had to labor long & hard. An eloquent defense of LTA (What About the Airship?), countless speeches and articles had affirmed his unshaken faith in the craft that had often shaken the faith of U.S. airmen...
That the lighter-than-air idea lives is due in part to a tanned, square-cut naval officer who believes in airships. Having served on or commanded two big dirigibles built for and lost by the U. S. Navy, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl continues to preach in interviews, books, Congressional testimony that helium-filled airships are safe, efficient transports, scouting craft, airplane carriers...
Faith alone does not move mountains in Washington. Commander Rosendahl and disciples have had assistance from three companies interested in building more dirigibles. These are Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., whose Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. built the Akron and Macon, Carl B. Fritsche's Metalclad Airship Corp. in Detroit, and Interocean Dirigible Corp., recently organized at Richmond to develop a new "tunnel ship" (with propellers mounted tandem in a tunnel through the ship's centre...
Commander Rosendahl published a 431-page, ably projected defense of airships in commerce and war.* Of helium, Commander Rosendahl wrote: ". . . It appears that nature has so bounteously endowed the United States with helium supplies as to give us not only a virtual world monopoly but also a supply that will be practically unlimited for generations. It now remains to be seen whether we shall take advantage of this God-given situation and utilize our boundless supply of helium . . . in airships for our national defense and for carrying our mail, merchandise and passengers through oceanic airlines all over this globe...