Word: zr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans are a government secret, but it is safe to say that the new ships will be longer and possibly more efficient than the Los Angeles (built in Germany as Zeppelin ZR-3). They will have either Maybach or Packard engines. The top speed of the Los Angeles is 70 m. p. h. and she has made a non-stop journey of 5,060 miles. She carries a crew of 45; but she is capable of carrying 100 passengers, who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside her envelope...
...cost Italy the lives of several equally as brave if not as renowned men, but we must insist that Nobile is in no way responsible for Amundsen's predicament. . . . In view of such dirigible disasters as the Shenandoah. the Dismeale, the Roma and the R34 and especially the ZR-2, it is a wonder and marvel that the "Italia" stood up as it did buffeted by Arctic cyclones and blizzards...
Performance. The Los Angeles came from Germany, where she was built (Zeppelin ZR-3), in 80 hours, a non-stop flight of 5,060 miles (TIME, Oct. 20, Oct. 27, 1924). Her top speed is 70 m. p. h. She has visited Bermuda, Porto Rico, flown many training flights at sea; voyaged 50,370 nautical miles since her arrival in 1924. Her usual cruising crew is about 45. She will carry 100 passengers who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside...
...unpleasant to climb through the top of the ZR-3's passenger cabin to the "cat-walk" running through the bottom of the hull? which provides only an 8-inch footing and 2-foot rail room at the top? for a walk that must be solitary and executed with great caution...
...single flash of lightning may destroy a dirigible, helium or hydrogen filled. The ZR-3 was delayed again and again by adverse weather conditions and it cannot land in fog. Is it possible to maintain schedules in the face of such conditions...