GIANT AIRSHIP
SAID TO BE UNSAFE. WASHINGTON, January 18. Sensational charges concerning the .safety and airworthiness of the giant United States Navy airship Akron, or ZRS4, will be made before the Congressional Committee this week. This has been revealed by Mr. James V. McClintic, the Democratic member for Snyder, Oklahoma, in the House of Representatives, and a member of the Naval Affairs Committee. Mr. McClintic has been gathering evidence regarding the'airship’s safety from technical experts. Ever since the Akron was launched last July reports that it was unsafe and poorly constructed have been circulated. The Navy Department issued several emphatic official denials, but it admitted
that tho Akron was overweight aflddncapable of her planned spited. This was declared to be du'e tb ' increased structural safety and added armament, both of which, it was stated, were cOnr.iderod desirable. Tho Naval Affairs Committee is'particularly desirous of disposing ofthe charges rapidly; bqcause Work off the sister ship ZRS-5 Is how under Way. 'The Akron is the world’s largest airship, being nearly- ttyice the siM of the Graf Zeppeelin. It deSigtiiau to cruise at sjfcty niiles an hour fot 11,1)00 miles without landing-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 March 1932, Page 5
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