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Thus, lying in three spots twelve miles apart on Ohio's rolling country, the Shenandoah was junk. And 14 men were dead. And 20 lived to tell the strangest story of their lives to their children's children...
...Captain Anton Heinen, German dirigible expert acted as advisor during the construction of the Shenandoah. He referred last week to the report that eight of the 18 safety valves in the ship's gas bags had been removed before her trip: '. would not call it murder, but I cannot put it too strong that if it had not been for the foolishness in cutting down the number of safety valves the crash would not have occured .... Now there will be a whitewash board of inquiry and some camouflage to cover up the real story of the cause which...
...Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, planning to fly from Middletown to Westfield by airplane, hearing of the Shenandoah's disaster abandoned his flight. The reason given was that the landing field at Westfield was not as "ideal as supposed...
...triumphs, one when he crossed the Atlantic with a British crew in the .R-34; one when he flew the Shenandoah across the U. S. and back...
Greater than his triumph was his faith. Lansdowne declared, not one, but many times, that dirigibles could be built to withstand any storm, that the Shenandoah was so built. But he told his wife-before his last trip that the one thing which could break the ship was the line-squall?the conflict of warm and cold shafts of air, pressing from below and above. He knew that such storms occurred near the locality where he was killed, for at Greenfield, Ohio, he was born 37 years...