Rigid airships had a short and perilous career in the Navy. From 1921 to 1935, five lighter-than-air giants sailed the skies and then suffered catastrophic structural failures or were scrapped. Yet in ...
On Sept. 3, 1925, the airship Shenandoah ZR-1 — translated to “daughter of the stars” — crashed in three sections over Noble County, Ohio. Designated by the U.S. Navy as an aircraft for use in long ...
Noble County, OH — The USS Shenandoah, a Navy rigid airship, was honored on its 100th anniversary with a ceremony at the Shenandoah Monument in Ava, Ohio. The event commemorated the tragic crash on ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of eight copy prints of the Shenandoah Airship Crash in 1925. The original photographs were taken by Don C. Carver. The ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The USS ZR-1 Shenandoah was the first American-built rigid airship to use helium; the first to use water recovery apparatus for the continuous ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results