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National Geographic : 1925 Jan
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Official Photograph, U. 5 . ,Navy FLYING OVER TIlE RESIDENTIAL SECTION OF WEST LOS ANGELES This airship comprises many wonder stories of modern science. Direct contributions to its development include new types of radio equipment, new developments in engine design and performance, new operative methods in driving propellers, and new machine-shop methods. Its long cruise tested the practicability of the American innovations added to the plans laid down by Zeppelin. the night and 17,016 pounds of fuel. 850 pounds of oil, and 2,500 pounds of water had been taken aboard. Her gas cells bellied inward, only partially full, along the inside tunnel. As she climbed over the mountains they would be taut, 5,000 cubic feet of gas escaping through the safety valves for every Too feet of alti tude above the pressure height. Ranger slipped by at 12:45 p. m., East land and its oil spindles at I, Cisco at 1:12, and Putnam at I:30. In the clear atmosphere which continued through that (lay and the next to the California border, the horizon was 50 or 75 miles away, and the ship, almost a mile above the surface, could be seen for miles. However, ranchers, accustomed to gazing across the plains, would dash for the nearest wind mill and climb its ladder, believing that they could see the ship better. Another unfailing manifestation in cities was to discover a speck in the cen ter of a street start into sudden motion, disappear under the little square which marked a home, immediately to reappear with a cluster of specks representing the family. GETTING THE RADIO MESSAGES TO THE AMERICAN PRISS It seems that all the automobiles in Putnam were on a hill outside the town. Two miles farther the glasses disclosed a dozen cars around a derrick operated by a farm tractor, the drivers watching a freshly struck oil gusher. Five minutes later a railroad train was overtaken in the midst of the plains. It had stopped and crew and passengers were on the ground gazing skyward. School children of Baird, at I :45, their bright- colored
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