Re: Tryingto find the story on IIRC US Coastguard balloon kills men.
- From: Ad absurdum per aspera <jtchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:20:27 -0700
You're doubtless thinking of USS AKRON (ZRS-4) -- Navy, not Coast
Guard; one of several really big dirigibles the Navy was working with
in the period.
See for instance
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zrs4-k.htm
and for a journalistic account
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743758,00.html?promoid=googlep
That's one coolheaded if unintentional aviator -- finding himself a
foothold and a way to make himself fast until he could be winched
up...
.
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