Description of test flights of metal-clad dirigible ZMC-2 built by Detroit Aircraft Corp. for United States Navy; process of filling hull with helium; little pitching proclivities for airship of size and shape, in spite of stubbiness; details of design are also given. (See also Aviation, vol. 27, nos. 7, Aug. 17, pp. 343-344 and no. 9, Aug. 31, 1929, pp. 474-478, 1 fig.; Aeroplane, vol. 37, no. 12, Sept. 18, 1929, pp. 764c-764d, 3 figs.)
First flights of the metal-clad airship
Airway Age
Airway Age ; 10 , n 11
1929
4 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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First flights of the metal-clad airship
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