AIRSHIP CONSTRUCTION
EFFORTS TO MDTIXIiSE ACCIDENTS^ WASHINGTON, July 26. The Army Air Service report of the Roma disaster last February recommends the use of helium gas in all army and navy airships. American technicians differ from tiro Italian experts regarding tho cause of the ship buckling, tho former believing that the nosepiece gave way, while tiro latter think tho rudders were responsible. The report recommends that all future airships be provided with facilities for the immediate dropping of all ballast and fuel tanks and a simultaneous stopping of all tho engines in the event of an accident.—A. and X.Z. Gable. [Ou February 21 the giant army airship Roma, with her crew and a number of civilians, totalling forty-five in all, plunged from a height of I,oooft or more to the ground at the Hampton Roads naval base. Thirty-four men were killed and eight seriously injured.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18032, 28 July 1922, Page 1
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