Word: airship
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...apostle of lighter-than-aircraft, Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, last week had hope of a new U.S. air fleet. At the Navy's LTA station at Lakehurst, N.J., he had a new 400,000-cu.-ft. blimp* called K3. It was the first new nonrigid airship Lakehurst had had in many a moon. After trial flights, K-3 will be ready for coastal patrol, the first of 48 blimps authorized by Congress, in a sudden appreciation of LTA. It was high time, thought Captain Rosendahl. In Lakehurst's dwindling complement were three aging tactical blimps (including two Army...
...promised new equipment, plus two great airship bases to be built in South Weymouth, Mass, and Elizabeth City, N.C., earnest, articulate Captain...
Rosendahl had had to labor long & hard. An eloquent defense of LTA (What About the Airship?), countless speeches and articles had affirmed his unshaken faith in the craft that had often shaken the faith of U.S. airmen...
Although many Navy men still doubt its value, the airship can do some things an airplane can't. It can run at low speed, or stop dead, hover over a suspected subsea object, take dead aim with bomb or depth charge from a stationary platform. From its car, in clear weather, the eight-man crew of a modern blimp once spotted a submarine 90 feet below the surface. Crews from Lakehurst daily practice following sharks and whales, occasionally give them a practice bomb. Other blimp virtues: they can stay in the air about 50 hours, can follow...
...Aluminum relics of the Navy's late dirigible Shenandoah turned up in Ohio where the airship crashed 16 years ago. Into a collection bin at Point Pleasant, N.J., went a fragment of the German Zeppelin Hindenburg, which burned at Lakehurst...