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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
And lest we forget ... USS Los Angles (ZR-3).

She was ultimately scraped thus ending the US Navy's era of "dirigibles" - these being replaced with the "blimps."

[As an FYI - See Airshipwreck by Len Deighton and Arnold Schwartzman, Jonathan Cape Ltd. Thirty Bedford Square, London, WC1, 1978.]

13 posted on 02/15/2010 1:55:37 AM PST by jamaksin
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To: jamaksin

“And lest we forget ... USS Los Angles (ZR-3).”

The Los Angeles was built in Germany by Graf Zeppelin and was acquired by the US Navy as war reparations, in the 20’s, renamed the USS Los Angeles. She is the only one of the Navy’s rigid airships that did not crash - scared the hell out of ‘em once at Lakehurst, though, when she was stood on her nose, still moored, by freak conditions.


15 posted on 02/15/2010 6:34:27 AM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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