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1924
1924 - 0101.PDF
THE "SHENANDOAH" ADVENTURE A Brief Official Account of the Accident ALTHOUGH a short report of the breaking away from her moor ing mast of the American airship " Shenandoah " in a gale of wind recently was published in our issue of January 24, the following official account, which has reached us from the naval air station at Lakehurst, N.J., should be of consider able interest. The photographs which accompanied this account give an excellent idea of the extent of the damage, and incidentally it is of interest to learn that what initially caused the airship,.to break away was not the strength of the wind per se, but the ripping of the fabric covering of the upper The " Shenan. doah " in her shed at Lake hurst, N.J., after her unpremedi tated flight. Note the smashed nose and stripped fabric. • • • The nose cap, etc., of the " Shenandoah." This, with parts of the girders and a length of the axial wire, was torn out and left hanging on the mooring mast. 101 D
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