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return, he positioned himself beneath the trapeze and climbed up until he could fly his skyhook onto the crossbar, at which point it automatically latched shut. Now, with the engine idling, the trapeze and airplane were raised into the hangar, the pilot cutting his engine as he passed through the door. Once inside, the airplane was transferred from the trapeze to a trolley, running on an overhead 'monorail' system by which it could be shunted into one of the four corners of the hangar to be refueled and re-armed. Having a single trapeze raised two problems: it limited the rate at which airplanes could be launched and recovered and any fault in the trapeze would leave any airborne scouts with nowhere to land. The solution was a second, fixed trapeze permanently rigged further aft along the bottom of the ship at station 102.5 and known as the 'perch'. By 1933 a perch was fitted and in use. Three more perches were planned (at stations 57.5, 80 and 147.5) but these were never fitted.
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airplanes, which should do all of the actual searching. Any aircraft carrier could do that, but only an airship could do it so quickly since her speed was at least twice that of a surface ship, enabling her to get to the scene or be switched from flank to flank quickly. However, it was an experimental ship, a prototype, and it took time for the doctrine and suitable tactics to evolve. It also took time to develop the techniques of navigating, controlling, and coordinating the scouts. At first, developments were hampered by inadequate radio equipment, as well as the difficulties encountered by the scout pilots in navigating, scouting, and communicating from their cramped open cockpits.
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obtained imagery of the hulk using the submarine's side-looking sonars. "It was neat to see something of historical significance like that," McKelvey said. "Akron was really a very technologically advanced weapon system for the Navy at the time. "We were able to get some very good images of the wreck," McKelvey continued, "but the visibility was too poor to do very extensive surveys. We saw that the actual ship itself was built of an aluminum alloy called duraluminum and we were able to see some of the girders. They looked like I-beams with holes drilled out of them to make them lighter and still retain their strength."
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the engines' ability to reverse, this allowed thrust to be applied forward, aft, up or down. It appears from photographs that the four propellers on each side were contra-rotating, each one turning the opposite way to the one ahead of it. Thus it would appear that the designers were aware that running the propellers in the air disturbed by the one ahead was not ideal. While the external engine pods of other airships allowed the thrust lines to be staggered, placing all four engine rooms on each side of the ship along the lower keel resulted in
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inside and outside the navy led to the ship being pushed too early to attempt too much. Little allowance seems to have been made for the fact that this was a prototype, an experimental system, and that tactics for her use were being developed "on the hoof." As a result, the airship's performance in fleet exercises was not all that some had hoped and gave an exaggerated impression of the ship's vulnerability and failed to demonstrate her strengths.
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normal 95 percent fill with helium of standard purity, the 6,500,000 cu ft (180,000 m) of gas would yield a gross lift of 403,000 lb (183,000 kg). Given a structure deadweight of 242,356 lb (109,931 kg), this gives a useful lift of 160,644 lb (72,867 kg) available for fuel, lubricants, ballast, crew, supplies and military load (including the skyhook airplanes)
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tip of the tail was at station −23.75 and the nose mooring spindle was at station 210.75. Each ring frame formed a polygon with 36 corners and these (and their associated longitudinal girders) were numbered from 1 (at the bottom centre) to 18 (at the top centre) port and starboard. Thus a position on the hull could be referred to, for example, as "6 port at station 102.5" (the number 1 engine room).
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engines, transmissions, and water-recovery devices were placed along the lower keels. The inert gas helium was used instead of flammable hydrogen, which improved streamlining by allowing the engines to be safely placed inside the hull. A generator room, with 2 Westinghouse d.c. generators powered by a 30-h.p. internal combustion engine, was forward of the No. 7 engine room.
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took to the air with 207 persons on board. This demonstration was to prove that in an emergency airships could provide limited but high speed airlift of troops to outlying possessions. Over the weeks that followed, some 300 hours aloft were logged in a series of flights, including a 46-hour endurance
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560 hp (420 kW) gasoline engines were mounted inside the hull. Each engine turned a two-bladed, 16 ft 4 in (4.98 m) diameter, fixed pitch, wooden propeller via a driveshaft and bevel gearing which allowed the propeller to swivel from the vertical plane to the horizontal. With
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with her crew of gallant officers and men is a national disaster. I grieve with the Nation and especially with the wives and families of the men who were lost. Ships can be replaced, but the Nation can ill afford to lose such men as Rear
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Lakehurst for local operations which were interrupted by a two-week overhaul and poor weather. In March, it carried out intensive training with an aviation unit of F9C-2s, honing hook-on skills. During the course of these operations, an overfly of Washington DC was made 4 March 1933, the
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were made from it. There were 12 gas cells, numbered 0 to XI, using Roman numerals and starting from the tail. While the 'air volume' of the hull was 7,401,260 cu ft (209,580 m), the total volume of the gas cells at 100 percent fill was 6,850,000 cu ft (194,000 m). At a
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The trapeze was lowered through the T-shaped door in the bottom of the ship and into the slipstream, with an airplane attached to the crossbar by the 'skyhook' above its top wing, its pilot on board and its engine running. The pilot tripped the hook and the airplane fell away from the ship. On his
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used three keels, one running along the top of the hull and one each side, 45 degrees up from the lower centreline. Each keel provided a walkway running almost the entire length of the ship. The electric and telephone wiring, control cables, 110 fuel tanks, 44 water ballast bags, 8 engine rooms,
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came to be regarded as aircraft carriers, whose sole job was to get the scouting airplanes to the search area and then to support them in their flights. The mothership herself should stay in the background, out of sight of enemy surface units, and act merely as a mobile advanced base for the
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in an effort to recover bodies. Most casualties had been caused by drowning and hypothermia, since the crew had not been issued life jackets, and there had not been time to deploy the single life raft. The accident left 73 dead, and only three survivors. Wiley, standing next to the two other
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or 'spy basket'. The "angel basket" or "sub-cloud observation car", allowed the airship to remain hidden in a cloud layer, while still observing the enemy below. The small car, rather like an airplane fuselage without wings, could be lowered on a 1000 foot long cable. The observer on board
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were self-supporting deep frames: triangular Warren trusses 'curled' round to form a ring. Though much heavier than conventional rings, the deep rings promised to be much stronger, a significant attraction to the navy after the in-flight break up of the earlier conventional airships
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equipment were present, the landing at Camp Kearny was fraught with danger. By the time the crew started the evaluation, the helium gas had been warmed by sunlight, increasing lift. Lightened by 40 short tons (36 t), the amount of fuel spent during the transcontinental trip,
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downwards at 14 feet per second (4.3 m/s). "Landing stations" alerted the crew, as the ship descended tail-down. The lower fin struck the sea, water entered the fin, and the stern was dragged under. The engines pulled the ship into a nose-high attitude, then the
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began a rapid nose-down descent, reaching 1,100 feet (340 m) while still falling. Ballast was dumped, which stabilized the ship at 700 feet (210 m), and climbed back to 1,600-foot (490 m) cruising altitude. Then a second violent descent sent the
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entered a new phase of her career that summer of 1932, engaging in intense experimentation with the revolutionary "trapeze" and a full complement of F9C-2s. A key element of the entrance into that new phase was a new commanding officer, Commander Alger Dresel.
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where an inspection party looked over a potential air base site. While returning northward, the airship paused at Opa-locka again for local operations exercising gun crews, with the N2Y-1s serving as targets, before getting underway for
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The heart of the ship, and her sole reason for existing, was the airplane hangar and trapeze system. Aft of the control car, in bay VII, between frames 125 and 141.25, was a compartment large enough to accommodate up to five
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s aftmost hangar bays, limiting its capacity to three airplanes (one in each forward corner of the hangar and one on the trapeze). A modification to remove this design flaw was pending at the time of the ship's loss.
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Secretary of the Navy Adams and Rear Admiral Moffett on board. The airship made ten trial flights, including a 2,000-mile (3,200 km) journey over a period of 48 hours to
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was not certified as airworthy again until later in the spring. Her next operation took place on 28 April, when it made a nine-hour flight with Rear Admiral Moffett and Secretary of the Navy Adams aboard.
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on 2 November 1931, showing her four starboard propellers. The engines' water reclaiming devices appear as white strips above each propeller. The emergency rear control cabin is visible in the lower fin.
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s propellers all being in line. This proved problematic in service, as it induced considerable vibration which was especially noticeable in the emergency control position in the lower fin. By 1933,
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17-SRT. The frame introduced several novel features compared with traditional Zeppelin designs. Rather than being single-girder diamond trusses with radial wire bracing, the main rings of
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had two of her propellers replaced by more advanced, ground-adjustable, three-bladed, metal propellers. These promised a performance increase and were adopted as standard for
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The mooring cable was cut to avert a catastrophic nose-stand by the errant airship which floated upwards. Most of the mooring crew—predominantly "boot" seamen from the
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s officers and men and reaching as high as the ship's equator. Though it was later improved by adding a ventral stabilizing fin, the spybasket was never used again.
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performance was remarkable. There was not a military airplane in the world in 1932 which could have given the same performance, operating from the same base."
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saw lights descending toward the ocean at about 00:23 and altered course to starboard to investigate, with her captain believing that he was witnessing an
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then changed course shortly before midnight and proceeded to the southeast. Ultimately, at 9:08 am on 11 January, the airship succeeded in spotting the
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and 12 destroyers, positively identifying them on the eastern horizon two minutes later. Sighting a second group of destroyers shortly thereafter,
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on the morning of 4 April 1933, killing 73 of the 76 crewmen and passengers. The accident involved the greatest loss of life in any airship crash.
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U.S. Navy airship (1931–33) – purpose-built flying aircraft carrier
1763:"U.S. Navy Airships U.S.S. Akron (ZRS-4) and U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5)"
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revived an idea used, and eventually rejected, by the German Navy
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60 deg. V12 water-cooled engines, 560 hp (420 kW) each
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2184:"Mind Traps: The fatal mistake of hanging on too long – Update"
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was one of several ships that searched for survivors from the
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5 × Curtiss F9C 'Sparrowhawk', Consolidated N2Y-1, Waco XJW-1
2586:, Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1965.
2292:"David E. Cummins, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy"
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1877:. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 55.
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2743:"Navy Air Giant Handles Easy As A Yacht", December 1931,
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2751:"World's Biggest Airship To Fly In May", February 1931,
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Accidents and incidents involving balloons and airships
2050:"The Southeast Missourian - Google News Archive Search"
30:
For the 1911 airship also constructed by Goodyear, see
2266:"Forgotten U.S. airship crash recalled 80 years later"
959:"Coast-to-coast" flight and second accident (May 1932)
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Tragedy While Navy Search Goes On 1933/04/06 (1933)
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2015:
1996:
1994:
1546:was the largest loss of life in any airship crash.
2572:, Edgewater, Florida: Atlantis Productions, 2001.
1094:departed from Sunnyvale on 11 June 1932 bound for
883:s hangar. This aircraft was one of four lost with
573:(for the city near where it was being built), and
2603:Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center.
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1679:2-bladed fixed-pitch, rotatable wooden propellers
1186:, Lt Howard L. Young, Lt(JG) Frederick N. Kivette
974:Following the conclusion of those trial flights,
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757:on a search exercise. Proceeding to the coast of
718:Participation in a search exercise (January 1932)
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2012:
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1342:, a guest of the admiral, the vice-president of
1030:. Footage from the accident appears in the film
2756:large detailed article with cutaway drawing of
2556:"Up Ship!": U.S. Navy Rigid Airships 1919–1935.
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865:Experimental use as a "flying aircraft carrier"
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2134:Sudden Gale Akron at Lakehurst NJ 1932/02/22
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777:) and eventually shaped a course toward the
3425:Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
2811:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
2693:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
2514:Smith (1965). p. 45 et al (especially p 56)
2425:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
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2908:List of airships of the United States Navy
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2600:New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company,1932.
1738:List of airships of the United States Navy
1651:6,500,000 cu ft (180,000 m)
1132:Further tests as "flying aircraft carrier"
1120:. The yacht was later discovered safe off
2210:"USN Aircraft-USS Akron (ZRS-4) – Events"
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850:took off again to conduct a test of the "
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2356:"10 Worst Airship Disasters in History"
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615:of the President of the United States,
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3540:1934 United Air Lines Boeing 247 crash
2505:Smith (1965). pp. 51, 53, 55, 59, etc.
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2159:Corporation, Bonnier (1 April 1932).
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2113:Smith (1965). pp. 7, 8, 34 & 161
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3769:Filmed deaths in the United States
3222:Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
2212:. History.navy.mil. Archived from
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1333:, assisting in the calibration of
749:On the morning of 9 January 1932,
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1472:, and the Coast Guard destroyers
3106:Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash
3082:Aviation accidents and incidents
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575:Assistant Secretary of the Navy
554:, the Chief of the U.S. Navy's
3302:Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue
3246:Kelly-Springfield Tire Company
2722:from the Summit Memory Project
2523:Smith (1965). pp 59, 171 et al
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818:First accident (February 1932)
562:sections began in March 1930.
512:Construction and commissioning
160:27 October 1931 (commissioned)
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2236:"Sport: Cruise of the Curlew"
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530:Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation
82:Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation
3759:1930s United States aircraft
3621:Western Air Express Flight 7
3446:Wingfoot Lake Airship Hangar
2570:U.S. Navy Airships 1915–1962
2487:Smith (1965). pp 49 & 51
2478:Smith (1965). pp 28 & 29
2335:Universal Newspaper Newsreel
2139:Universal Newspaper Newsreel
1562:In 2003, the U.S. submarine
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1349:After casting off at 19:28,
1144:Third accident (August 1932)
955:s aircraft hook-on ability.
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652:, with Lieutenant Commander
591:from which the frame of USS
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3676:Northwest Airlines Flight 1
3647:Northwest Airlines Flight 2
3144:Tupolev ANT-7 Podolsk crash
2736:"Akron Disaster 1933/04/04"
2659:. University of Akron. 1931
2637:. University of Akron. 1931
2296:Arlington National Cemetery
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842:Testing of the "spy basket"
142:31 October 1929 (commenced)
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3604:United Air Lines Flight 34
3586:American Airlines Flight 1
3523:United Air Lines Flight 23
3251:Goodyear Dunlop Sava Tires
3154:United Air Lines Flight 23
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1355:Barnegat Light, New Jersey
938:Curtiss XF9C-1 Sparrowhawk
913:cruised over the coast of
825:was to have taken part in
646:Goodyear Zeppelin Air Dock
580:announced it in May 1930.
283:under construction in the
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1988:Smith (1965). pp. 180–183
1780:Smith, Richard K (1965).
1733:List of airship accidents
1605:Specifications (as built)
1490:Gloucester, Massachusetts
1466:, the Coast Guard cutter
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3687:This list is incomplete.
3408:Goodyear Dunlop v. Brown
3272:Akron Goodyear Wingfoots
3267:1988 Goodyear NASCAR 500
2652:Construction of the USS
2630:Construction of the USS
2549:Sky Ship: the Akron Era.
1944:U.S.S. Akron – Propeller
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1633:785 ft (239 m)
1611:The Story of the Airship
1032:Encounters with Disaster
144:8 August 1931 (launched)
3291:Goodyear Polymer Center
2793:on the Internet Archive
2617:. Retrieved 5 May 2005.
2102:Popular Science Monthly
1873:Smith, Richard (1965).
1722:8 x.30-cal machine guns
1618:General characteristics
1609:Data based on the book
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660:, 27 October 1931, the
650:Naval Air Station (NAS)
619:. The maiden flight of
215:flying aircraft carrier
3720:39.452167; -73.7075000
3419:Goodyear Polyglas tire
3387:Charles Goodyear Medal
2411:. United States Navy.
2163:. Bonnier Corporation.
1946:. Retrieved 2008-07-22
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1184:Frederick M. Trapnell
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567:Charles Francis Adams
564:Secretary of the Navy
556:Bureau of Aeronautics
402:buoyancy compensation
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272:Technical description
176:Crashed off coast of
3779:Akron-class airships
2765:Commander Describes
2710:27 July 2018 at the
2039:Smith (1965). p. 197
1979:Smith (1965). p. 182
1958:Smith (1965). p. 193
1906:Smith (1965). p. 196
1897:Smith (1965). p. 191
1813:Smith (1965). p. 187
1804:Smith (1965). p. 181
1507:Cathedral of the Air
1090:In need of repairs,
1036:Sun Classic Pictures
890:on 12 February 1935.
771:Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
689:On 2 November 1931,
654:Charles E. Rosendahl
617:Herbert Clark Hoover
547:On 7 November 1929,
481:Charles E. Rosendahl
32:Akron (1911 airship)
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3323:Cotton Bowl Classic
3182:► 1934
3176:1932 ◄
2451:Smith (1965). p 177
2442:Smith (1965). p 171
2122:Smith (1965). p. 51
2021:Smith (1965). p. 55
2000:Smith (1965). p. 67
1967:Smith (1965). p. 75
1523:first arrived there
1170:Return to the fleet
260:was destroyed in a
71:General information
3784:1933 in New Jersey
3655:(January 11 1938)*
3519:crash (April 1933)
3241:Goodyear Aerospace
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2774:Universal Newsreel
2582:Smith, Richard K,
2496:Smith (1965). p 69
2246:on 27 October 2010
2216:on 5 February 2012
1535:William A. Moffett
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1042:West Coast flights
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827:Fleet Problem XIII
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697:On 3 November the
682:
668:History of service
648:for the Lakehurst
623:took place around
599:On 8 August 1931,
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578:Ernest Lee Jahncke
552:William A. Moffett
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95:United States Navy
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3318:Spirit of America
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2745:Popular Mechanics
2358:. 7 November 2012
2190:. 19 January 2013
2161:"Popular Science"
1501:Aftermath of loss
1340:U.S. Army Reserve
1316:Location of crash
1240:stopping briefly
1220:Soon thereafter,
907:parasite fighters
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708:Mississippi River
640:. On 21 October,
358:goldbeater's skin
264:off the coast of
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168:4 April 1933
149:First flight
139:Manufactured
77:Manufacturer
58:
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3718: /
3703:39°27′7.8″N
3308:PeopleMover
3008:Los Angeles
2998:Los Angeles
2888:Los Angeles
2780:22 February
2409:Winter 2003
2341:20 February
2301:20 February
2145:20 February
2084:15 November
2059:13 November
1685:Performance
1677:Propellers:
1667:Powerplant:
1590:World War I
1572:s girders.
1344:Mack Trucks
1331:New England
1067:floatplanes
996:Camp Kearny
526:Akron, Ohio
491:Mines Field
467:World War I
411:5,940
244:and LZ 130
230:sister ship
217:, carrying
165:Last flight
126:Total hours
86:Akron, Ohio
3733:Categories
3632:(May 1937)
3628:Hindenburg
3565:(May 1935)
2968:Shenandoah
2958:Shenandoah
2656:, Part Two
2634:, Part One
2542:References
2388:25 January
2268:. NJ.com.
1884:0870210653
1576:Assessment
1505:See also:
921:, and the
915:New Jersey
852:spy basket
769:bound for
767:destroyers
712:Ohio River
702:flight to
605:christened
341:Hindenburg
316:Shenandoah
266:New Jersey
241:Hindenburg
178:New Jersey
157:In service
3517:USS Akron
3229:Divisions
3132:Lituanica
2886:USS
2730:1944–1945
2691:from the
2663:16 August
2641:16 August
2194:8 January
2188:Jeff Wise
1637:Diameter:
1586:zeppelins
1387:USS
1122:Nantucket
885:USS
790:USS
741:USS
644:left the
638:Milwaukee
630:St. Louis
625:Cleveland
595:was built
589:duralumin
534:U.S. Navy
463:zeppelins
296:duralumin
211:her class
207:lead ship
203:U.S. Navy
3630:disaster
3441:Tire war
2708:Archived
2676:and USS
2611:Archived
2598:Up Ship!
2382:Newsweek
2276:24 March
2220:24 March
1727:See also
1712:Armament
1475:McDougal
1457:Portland
1389:Portland
1284:100miles
1242:en route
1071:warships
994:reached
927:aviators
731:Film of
710:and the
658:Navy Day
540:and USS
472:spähkorb
252:hydrogen
228:and her
3086: (
3084:in 1933
2362:3 March
1649:Volume:
1643:Height:
1631:Length:
1486:Grace F
1445:cutter
1427:Phoebus
1419:Phoebus
1407:Phoebus
1376:stalled
1118:Bermuda
1000:mooring
984:Arizona
980:Georgia
934:trainer
792:Raleigh
779:Bahamas
634:Chicago
528:by the
465:during
239:LZ 129
201:of the
199:airship
191:(ZRS-4)
134:History
118:Flights
46:(ZRS-4)
3436:STARAN
3332:People
3160:Dec 30
3150:Oct 10
3126:Jul 17
3102:Mar 28
2803:
2789:Watch
2776:. 1933
2590:
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2337:, 1933
2250:27 May
2141:, 1932
2077:. via
1881:
1788:
1704:Range:
1570:Akron'
1469:Mojave
1448:Tucker
1246:Balboa
1238:Panama
1114:Curlew
812:'s
743:Patoka
636:, and
611:, the
469:: the
373:Eight
338:, and
205:, the
195:helium
193:was a
129:1695.8
101:Serial
92:Owners
3373:Other
3140:Sep 5
3134:crash
3120:crash
3118:Akron
3112:Apr 4
3038:Macon
3031:Akron
3022:class
3020:Akron
3000:class
2981:class
2960:class
2871:Macon
2864:Akron
2850:Akron
2767:Akron
2758:Akron
2719:Akron
2704:Macon
2700:Akron
2687:Akron
2678:Macon
2674:Akron
2654:Akron
2632:Akron
2607:Akron
1749:Notes
1720:Guns:
1625:Crew:
1594:Macon
1582:Akron
1554:Macon
1550:Macon
1544:Akron
1539:Akron
1531:'
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1521:Macon
1517:Akron
1488:from
1431:blimp
1423:Akron
1400:Akron
1394:Akron
1373:Akron
1368:Akron
1363:Akron
1359:Akron
1351:Akron
1323:Akron
1282:150km
1234:Akron
1222:Akron
1211:Akron
1207:Macon
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1200:Akron
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1180:Akron
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1104:Akron
1092:Akron
1083:over
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1005:Akron
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969:Akron
953:'
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911:Akron
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783:Akron
775:Akron
763:Akron
751:Akron
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699:Akron
691:Akron
678:Akron
662:Akron
642:Akron
621:Akron
601:Akron
593:Akron
571:Akron
542:Macon
538:Akron
518:ZRS-4
506:Akron
502:Macon
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448:'
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408:Akron
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387:Akron
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367:Macon
362:Akron
346:Akron
324:Akron
300:Akron
293:alloy
281:Akron
258:Akron
234:Macon
226:Akron
189:Akron
105:ZRS-4
59:Akron
44:Akron
3669:1939
3640:1938
3614:1937
3579:1936
3550:1935
3533:1934
3510:1933
3493:1931
3116:USS
3088:1933
2988:ZR-2
2895:None
2782:2012
2702:and
2698:USS
2689:page
2685:USS
2672:USS
2665:2016
2643:2016
2605:USS
2588:ISBN
2574:ISBN
2560:ISBN
2427:link
2390:2008
2364:2013
2343:2009
2303:2009
2278:2014
2252:2010
2240:Time
2222:2014
2196:2019
2147:2009
2086:2008
2061:2021
1879:ISBN
1786:ISBN
1669:8 ×
1565:NR-1
1481:Hunt
1478:and
1463:Cole
1441:The
1253:Loss
1225:day
897:and
613:wife
560:hull
313:ZR-1
311:and
309:ZR-2
187:USS
173:Fate
42:USS
2979:R38
1435:J-3
931:N2Y
876:in
524:in
413:nmi
305:R38
209:of
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