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...greatly surprised last fortnight when modest, youthful Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl was given the most coveted station in naval aeronautics: command of the nearly-completed Akron, largest dirigible in the world. A veteran of 3,333 hr. airship flight, a survivor of the storm-torn Shenandoah, he is indisputably the Navy's No. 1 lighter-than...
...Commander Rosendahl last week, to assemble for his new command a crack crew?about ten officers, 40 enlisted men?from the personnel trained aboard the Los Angeles (his old command). As second-in-command of the Akron the Navy picked Lieut. Commander Herbert V. Wiley, a veteran of the Shenandoah and of five years service on the Los Angeles. Chief engineer, in charge of the eight Maybachmotors which will drive Akron at 83 m. p. h., is Lieut. Commander Bertram J. Rodgers...
Capt. Heinen, a Zeppelin pilot in the War, later a consulting engineer for the Navy's ill-fated dirigible Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), built his "air yacht" to be produced commercially "for family use." Its initial cost was $19,000, but the prospective purchase price, the designer said, would be "far below $10,000," the operating cost-per-mile lower than that of an automobile...
Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for the British Air Ministry, lately wrote: "Another disaster like that which befell the Shenandoah, would delay development for many years." He had ridden on the Shenandoah just before an Ohio thunderstorm tossed, twisted and tore her to disaster (TIME, Sept. 14,1925). Great Britain was then planning her R-100, which made a troubled round-trip between England and Canada this summer (TIME, Aug. 11), and her R-101. Lord Thomson had then commented: "If the best minds in England can devise anything to make dirigible flying absolutely safe, these ships will...
There was one very strange thing about this disaster. In similar dirigible wrecks, viz., those of the Shenandoah and the ZR2 (built by England, sold to the U. S.; destroyed over Hull, Eng., Aug. 1921), wind whirled the vessels high before their destruction. In the R-101'S case, the wind and rain seemed to have done the reverse, pressed the ship down to earth, buckled it from above...