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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...
German. Dr. Hugo Eckener, famed Zeppelin expert, failed miserably in an attempt to take up a collection among patriotic Germans for the purpose of building a Zeppelin and beating Amundsen to the pole. The Shenandoah disaster (TIME, Sept. 14, AERONAUTICS) is said to have made many a German leery of the Zeppelin type of aircraft...
...Director Duerr of the Zeppelin Co., said in Berlin: "No German airship ever broke in two in the air, but this has happened twice with English airships...
Attached to the ill-fated #34, he made the 57-hour trip to the Baltic, obtained a British pilot's license, became a regular member of her crew. Previously he had attended at her modeling, her building. His training completed by study of the Zeppelin in Germany, Lansdowne was regarded as one of the half-dozen ablest lighter-than-air commanders in the world...