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To: AfricanChristian

Even helium airships can have horrible problems with bad weather:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shenandoah_%28ZR-1%29

No need for hydrogen to make it dangerous....

13 posted on 05/04/2011 4:57:25 PM PDT by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)

To: GenXteacher

Good read.

16 posted on 05/04/2011 5:01:41 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((unite))

To: GenXteacher

Exactly right. Weather also got the Navy’s other two big airships, the Akron and the Macon.

24 posted on 05/04/2011 5:16:43 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)

To: GenXteacher

I think Doppler radar makes it pretty easy to dodge weather now...

33 posted on 05/04/2011 5:42:28 PM PDT by piytar (The Four Horsemen: War, Pestilence, Famine, and Bob. Be not proud, Bob! (ht to Gen.Blather))

To: GenXteacher

Don’t forget what also happened to the “Akron” and “Macon”.

37 posted on 05/04/2011 5:47:20 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (One of these days, Alice....one of these days.....POW!! Right in the kisser!!!!)

To: GenXteacher

All of the US built rigids had structural problems, Shenandoah, Akron, Macon.

The only Navy rigid that was sound was the German reparation ship, the Los Angeles.

Blame the Navy and Goodyear (and perhaps the German consultants)

40 posted on 05/04/2011 6:12:02 PM PDT by PAR35

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