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...Plot. According to Dr. Harrison E. Howe, Editor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, a "plot" is under way to divert public interest from helium. Asserting that electrical sparks twelve to eighteen inches in length were seen on the helium-filled Shenandoah on the night of its great adventure (TIME, Jan. 28) and that these sparks would have set it on fire, had it been filled with hydrogen, Dr. Howe-through the pages of his journal-demanded to know why this important fact has been overlooked in official and press discussions. "What is back of this obvious effort to have...
Heinan Described. The German engineer in question is Captain Anton Heinan, who (employed by the U. S. Navy Department) was aboard the Shenandoah on the occasion of its accidental flight. Short, slenderly built, Heinan has a keen and piercing blue eye, an air of imperturbability. Bred in the great German port of Hamburg, he was a seaman before becoming Germany's most noted dirigible pilot. He flew the Bodensee between Berlin and Friedrichshafen in south Germany on passenger-carrying service with almost clocklike regularity, claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years...
Heinan's Reply. Heinan made a strong rejoinder to Editor Howe. The Shenandoah will be in commission in April. If Great Britain or any other Power threatens to forestall the U. S. in a voyage of discovery to the Polar areas this Summer, the German pilot is prepared to make an immediate dash to the Pole, not by way of Alaska- where mooring masts and other equipment have to be carefully prepared- but in a five-day non-stop flight of 6,000 miles from Lakehurst straight to the Pole and back. And this at 24 hours' notice...
...Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, will give an illustrated lecture on aviation this evening at 7.30 P. M. in the Living Room of the Union. In his talk the general will trace the development of flying from the days of Langley and Wright to the Fokkers and Shenandoah's of modern times. the lecture is under the auspices of the Engineering Society...