Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-10-19 | Page 1 | Rays Make Too Light

lS Rays Make Too Light BOARD IT t. S. S S. S SHE A AI i Al-i CAMP LEWIS Wash Oct jy B Wireless to the Associated ess The S.-The The The navy na dirigible Sh Shen- Shen n- n oah in the last day of its flight 1 0 akehurst N. N J. J to Camp Camps Camp's s 's S Wash before it was moored Ight g t was was' able to keep between arid and nd feet off the gro ground na b b tilting at angle of fifteen ees and keeping five motors ng at the rate of 1000 ts s minute big ship toda today shuttled back between the mooring t at Camp Lewis and Tacoma m its Us ts control cars those on J l could see both snow-covered snow un n Rainier nearby and Mount fount D Dd more than miles to the h Like a cut clearly-cut etching c cies ies les lakes and forest beneath d out in m relief 0 o t tn n aeronaut the Shenandoah's sal to come to its mooring mast n he mantel of lying low fog foge ke teis e is easy of explanation For lor Benefit benefit of others Lieutenant mander Zachary Lansdowne Shenandoah's commander commanderS ex- ex ned the delicate operation ined med m- m ed when the ship was able to toti ti the tip of the mooring mast camp nip Lewis thrusting through fog tog which covered tree tops L was light due o the loa iL i gasoline which been k n n the 48 hour 48 against headwinds sifter headwinds leav- leav San Diego Thursday morning I t the heat of the early morn- morn I For each degree that thai I Suns Runs ins in's rays raised the temper- temper 6 its gas bags the I pounds li lighter Ideal dial landing landing- condition exists 1 the he shIp is in equilibrium be- be its wel weight ht an and th the 8 s. s gas said Commander Lans- Lans ne Shenandoah this morning was 4 I. I pounds light gauged he angle at which it was ry to tilt tUt it at a given speed to lit It from rising as we ap- ap hed Chel within feet of the theand nd and traveling thirty miles an anThe The drop toward the earth the airship Into a colder air turn Urn m. m which increased the i a ah's s 's buoyancy and the thirty s an hour speed was not surf surri- t tto to bring It Into position for instant necessary to drop the then n ropes pes to the mooring mast I