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NH 84566 USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)

Photo #: NH 84566 USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)
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Title: USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)
Description: Begins her out-of-control rise to near-vertical position, while moored at the high mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, at about 1:30 PM on 25 August 1927. This incident, which resulted from the sudden arrival of a cold air front that lifted the airship's tail, causing it to rise before she could swing around the mast parallel to the new wind direction. Los Angeles suffered only minor damage, but the affair demonstrated the risks involved with high mooring masts. Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book The Airships Akron & Macon, 1974. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 84566
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