Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition finished unloading equipment from the gunboat Heimdal at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, and settled themselves to await the arrival of their Italian colleague in their dirigible Norge, long overdue from Leningrad. The first days of all-night sunshine found them skiing on the slopes of Mount Zeppelin*, eating seal-steak at Sailmaker Roenne's house, putting finishing touches to the dirigible's mooring mast and hangar...
...Named for Count Zeppelin after his visit to see whether his airships might not use Spitzbergren as a northern base...
...metal framework in the gasbag save a ring at the bottom to which fabric, valves and passenger basket are attached. The semirigid dirigible ("blimp") employs a keel or spine of structural metal usually aluminum, to stiffen the under side of the envelope, support cabins, motors, crew. The rigid (Zeppelin) type of ship has a complete skeleton of struts and girders, with hoops articulated laterally inside its spine and ribs to form separate gas chambers when covered with fabric inside as well...
Captain Anton Heinen, German Zeppelin expert, was among them. He declared that the Shenandoah had been made unsafe for operation because safety valves had been removed...
...Naval Court of Inquiry investigating the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah sat for a second week at Lakehurst, N. J. The chief testimony taken dealt with air conditions at the time of the disaster and the chief witness was Captain Anton Heinen, German Zeppelin pilot, for years employed as a pilot and tester by the Delag Co., makers of the German Zeppelins...