AMERICA’S AIRSHIP
TESTING THE MACON BEARING ON FUTURE POLICY. NEW YORK, May 6. The United Press, in a copyrighted Washington dispatch, states that the airship Macon, which, since the destruction, of the Akron and the discommissioning of the Los Angeles, is the only navy airship on active seivice, is now manoeuvring with the main battle fleet in the Caribbean Sea on tests the results of which will have an important bearing on the forthcoming decision whether to continue or abandon airship construction. Since the Akron disaster in 1933 it has been learned authoritatively that despite official attempts to minimise the incident, the Macon was affected with structural difficulties in her re-
cent transcontinental flight from California, and sheared two girders, necessitating repairs. The airship also experienced difficulties with climatic changes affecting the helium gas with which it is filled.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 107, 8 May 1934, Page 5
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