HUGE NEW AIRBASE.
BIGGER U.S. DIRIGIBLE PLANNED
Giving an indication that airships twice the size of the Akron, now the largest craft of its type, may eventually be constructed, the U.S. Navy Department recently opened bids for the construction of the great dirigible hangar •at Sunnyvale, California. ; . "The hangar will house one airship of 11,000,000 cubic feet," read an official statement. The capacity of the Akron is 6.500,000 cubic feet. The lowest bidder for the grading of the Sunnyvale site was the Raymond Concrete Pile Company of New York, ■£36,200. ; ■■■■- * The new hangar, which is to serve as the Pacific Coast airship base, will be 1138 feet long, 310 feet wide and 198 feet high, or, relatively, about three city blocks in length,, one block in width and the equivalent of about 18 storeys in height. The total cost of the entire base project as authorised by Congress is set at £1,000,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 26 October 1931, Page 3
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152HUGE NEW AIRBASE. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 26 October 1931, Page 3
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