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After hearing arguments by naval officers including famed Lieut.-Commander Rosendahl; editors including Arthur Brisbane and Joseph Medill Patterson; heavier-than-air experts including Col. Lindbergh and Brigadier-General William ("Billy") Mitchell, the joint Congressional committee on the Akron disaster last week gave a bill-of-health to the Navy's airship- program, saw in it "further potential utility to be developed only by experience." Prime recommendations...
...Weather Bureau should issue daily four general weather maps instead of two. (The Committee blamed the Akron crash on "navigation of the ship into storm conditions." Commander Rosendahl had testified that he was sure Captain McCord could not have had full weather data, otherwise what he did would indicate, unthinkably, ''wholesale disregard of information...
...Being treated in 1925 for what Commander Rosendahl called "airship measles, intestinal disorders and even broken bones"; having to stay in dock for months after she was repaired because the Shenandoah had crashed, losing their joint supply of helium...
...Phoenix. Ariz, at midnight the Akron circled for a time, adjusting her trim for the push over the mountains. She disgorged her two airplanes to fly on by themselves, lightening the airship's load by 6,000 Ib. and adding 2,000 ft. to her ceiling. Crossing Texas, Commander Rosendahl spurned Fort Worth and Dallas to fly over his mother's home at Cleburne. On the last leg from Parris Island the Akron averaged 75 knots, a record...
This week Commander Rosendahl was to deliver command of the Akron to Commander Alger Herman Dresel, passenger on the transcontinental flight, then return by train to California to board the battle cruiser West Virginia for sea duty...