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...natural gas produced from wells in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas, in Oklahoma and in Kansas. These are, in fact, the only large sources in the world. There is enough gas available to keep filled, ready for service, 200 airships of the size of the navy dirigible Shenandoah. In a very few years airships twice the size of the Shenandoah will be built, predicted Dr. Moore. They will carry enough fuel for a round trip to Europe, and a good-sized load of bombs if necessary. Commercial dirigibles will connect North America with Europe, South America...
...requires over 300 men to take the Shenandoah in or out of its hangar, and there is always considerable hazard in such work. But now (for the first time in American aviation) a dirigible has been made fast to a mooring mast. With Captain Frank R. McCrary and Captain Anton Heinen, the German engineer-pilot, in charge, the Shenandoah, her nose about 200 feet above the ground, glided towards the apex of a huge mooring mast which stands some 1,500 feet west of the Lakehurst hangar. As the dirigible approached the mast, it dropped a steel cable. A ground...
...yesterday hundreds of members of the University saw the Navy dirigible Shenandoah, the largest aircraft in the world, pass over Cambridge on its 700 mile cruise from Lakehurst, New Jersey, to central New England. The huge silver airship was first seen from Harvard Square as it floated over East Cambridge. At the time the Shenandoah was reported to be logging 58 knots, or considerable more than 60 miles an hour. By 12.50 o'clock it had passed out of sight beyond Belmont...
...Shenandoah Valley News, of Waynesboro-Basic, Va., published an editorial headed The New Yorker, under which appeared these pronouncements...
...American ZR-1-to be christened appropriately Shenandoah or "Daughter of the Stars" by Mrs. Denby, wife of the Secretary of the Navy-made a pleasure trip to St. Louis to see the races, and returned to Lakehurst after an uneventful journey of 2,200 miles, at an average speed of some 60 miles an hour despite strong head winds...