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- en: USS Los Angeles (ZR-3): In a near-vertical position, after her tail rose out-of-control while she was moored at the high mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, shortly after 1:30 PM on 25 August 1927.
- de: Das Luftschiff ZR-3 „USS Los Angeles“ vollführt unfreiwillig einen Kopfstand am Ankermast in Lakehurst, am frühen Nachmittag des 25. August 1927.
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U.S. Naval Historical Center - Foto # NH 84568 [1]
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USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)
In a near-vertical position, after her tail rose out-of-control while she was moored at the high mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, shortly after 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 Historical Center Photograph.
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