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the sceptics will be fortified; the airship will lose the support of many ho were disposed, to the view that what' German en- gineers could accomplish was possible to the experts of any other nation. From what is Kong-known concerning the causes of the disaster, there appears to be justification for regarding the airship, as a dangerous, xehicle. 7, Garrick Street, London, W.G.2 Captain Pruss had brought his magnificent ship to her destina- Notice To Contributors, ......d tion, she was manoeuvring for All communications intended for attachment to the Lakehurst publication should be addressed to mooring-mast.

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man power of control, her tail dip- as a guarantee of good faith.

ped suddenly, struck the ground violently and a devastating ex- plosion, which swept flames from end to end of the airship in a few, minutes, had ended her existence. Hydrogen's terrible weakness as a buoyancy agent was once again proved. · But the other factor, just as significant, cannot be overlooked. Both the Akron and Macon disasters were attributed to lateral air currents which the dirigibles were Hong Kong, Saturday, May 8, 1937 helpless. Survivors of the R.101

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sified by the can was inten-[planation. The inference is that

tragedy gave evidence definitely suggesting that her almost in- comprehensible loss of height at the critical juncture was brought about by a downward rush of air. The swift dipping of the tail of The profound shock caused the Hindenburg seems incapable throughout the world by the of any other satisfactory ex- Hindenburg

the airship is a fair weather the firm confidence that craft, demanding the impossible had become almost universal in of protection from the unexpect- the complete safety of the Gered in air currents for assurance man zeppelin type of dirigible. cannot assert precise, control- of safety. Lighter than air, it

The airships of other nations lability and manoeuvrability Jean Lensen And Orch might come to disaster: but the when the severe stress. comes. Yelli D'Aranyi Violin. products of the Zeppelin Works Zeppelin, which has been flying The long immunity of the Graf had survived every test with the for years Squire Octet.

with an astonishing highest credit, there was some degree of success în schedule Terence Casey Organ belief that German engineers maintenance and so on, may be urged in contradiction: The Lener String Quartet. had hit upon a secret for which reply might reasonably be repre- the experts of other countries sented in a question, even though Lener String Quartet.

were still groping. The loss of it is, by its very nature, un- Bournemouth Orch. the Hindenburg,

answerable. It is shortly, How in circum-

would the Graf Zeppelin have stances well-nigh inexplicable, fared had she been over Beauvais Albert Sandler And Orch:}

shatters all that, and with it, the in the place of the R.101 or had The Bohemians. main prop of the advocates of she experienced the weather con- ditions which terminated the life The Bohemians. lighter-than-air craft in other of the Macon? In other words, countries, who have exploited may it not be that the Graf Zep- the achievements of the Graz pelin has been fortunate in her Zeppelin and the Hindenburg in season, that Fate has decreed that she should escape the their campaigns for opportunity gravest perils of airship naviga- to prove that R.101, Akron and tion? These are purely hypothe- Macon were but tragic mistakes.tical questions, but they are cer- tain to be asked by anyone who The deepest sympathy and has given study to the future of condolences will go out to the

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German nation, in this hour of disaster has been suggested. Dr. One other explanation for the distress. Reports that officials Eckener has spoken of the pos- were incredulous on receipt of sibility of sabotage. That may be the first news of the catastrophe looked upon as the reflection of a are easy to believe. Happily, the ship Strange things happen in warrantable pride in a splendid full horror of those early reports this modern world of interna was not borne out by the subse that any individual or group of tional jealousies and friction, but quently ascertained facts. The individuals could conceive death-roll, at first stated to be crime so horrifying as that im- 96, was shown to have been es- plied would surely be beyond ac- ceptance even by those with the timated upon inadequate în- formation arising from the con-

smallest faith in human nature. There

were peculiar circum- fusion following the explosion. stances but they were of a shape It was

later discovered that at suggesting a tragic accident be- least sixty of the hundred souls yond human ability to foresee or aboard survived the holocaust.

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avert. Helium gas in the Hindenburg's containers would seems inevitable that the have mitigated appreciably its principal result of the sad affair gravity. But helium, would no will be to revive the airship con- more have guaranteed complete troversy Germany, denies dis escape than the other strict pre- couragement and announces her cautions taken to render the tention of proceeding with her Hindenburg as safe as an airship building programme. Elsewhere, can be..