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...last week the crew of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles busied themselves, proud not only of their ship's new coat of gleaming silver but of a new assignment- a role in the great game of War. Under the Versailles Treaty the U. S. received the then ZR3 from Germany for non-military uses. For six years the Los Angeles has served the Navy well as a flying laboratory and schoolroom. With two big new dirigibles, one of which will be ready in June, abuilding at Akron expressly for military use, the Navy wanted to have the Los Angeles...
...ZR3 (now the U. S. Navy's Los Angeles) flew from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, approximately 1,500 mi. farther...
...streamlined airship. The change was essentially the perfection of a light and rigid duraluminum framework within the gas bag (envelope). The result was a superb instrument of war-with long cruising radius and many-bomb capacity. Terms of peace made it necessary for Dr. Eckener to bring Zeppelin ZR3 to the U. S., where she was promptly rechristened Los Angeles. After that, he built the Count Zeppelin for commercial purposes. Now, in his 60's Dr. Eckener carries his six feet as straight as does a drill sergeant...
...Northcliffe money in a single-motored plane, but pitched into the sea short of Ireland, being rescued by a Danish tramp-steamer. The U. S. Army globe-fliers (1924) stopped at Greenland en route from Scotland. Dirigibles to cross the Atlantic without a stop: the R34 (British), 1919; the ZR3 (Los Angeles...
...longest non-stop flight by a rigid dirigible is 5,066 mi., from Friederickshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, N.J., by the Zeppelin ZR3 (now the Los Angeles...