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The journey started at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on Oct. 7 with the Shenandoah casting off from the mooring mast at 10:00 a.m. The first stop would be Fort Worth, where it would replace the helium ...
USS Macon in Hangar One on October 15, 1933, following a transcontinental flight from Lakehurst, New Jersey. The hangar's interior is so large that fog sometimes forms near the ceiling. [2] Standard gauge tracks run through the length of the hangar. During the period of lighter-than-air dirigibles and non-rigid aircraft, the rails extended ...
On 16 January 1924, the upper tail fin of the Shenandoah was damaged during a high gale while moored to the mast at Lakehurst. The sudden rolling of the airship tore her away from the mast, ripping out her mooring winches, deflating the first helium cell and puncturing the second. [ 3 ]
Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst (JB MDL) is a United States military facility located 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. The base is the only tri-service base in the United States Department of Defense and includes units from all six armed forces branches.
Hangar No. 1 is an airship hangar located at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.It was the intended destination of the rigid airship LZ 129 Hindenburg prior to the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, when it burned while landing.
This program proposed, in addition to the expansion at Naval Air Station and Lakehurst, the construction of new stations. The original contract was for steel hangars, 960 ft (290 m) long, 328 ft (100 m) wide and 190 ft (58 m) high, helium storage and service, barracks for 228 men, a power plant, landing mat, and a mobile mooring mast.
The roaring flames silhouette two men, at right atop the mooring mast, dangerously close to the explosions. On the 60th anniversary of the disaster Tuesday, May 6, 1997, the ``why'' of the crash ...
Lakehurst is a borough in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,636, [9] a decrease of 18 (−0.7%) from the 2010 census count of 2,654, [18] [19] which in turn reflected an increase of 132 (+5.2%) from the 2,522 counted in the 2000 census.