This is the second part of a series. In the spring of 1925, a shortage of helium kept the U.S. built USS Shenandoah in her Lakehurst, N.J. hangar. The valuable gas had been given to the newer, ...

This is the first in a series. As January 1925 ended, the giant hangar at Lakehurst, N.J. housed two of the world’s most modern dirigibles. Each was over two football fields long. The USS Shenandoah ...

The Dawn might have floated for a little before sinking. Seeking a floating speck, the great dirigible Los Angeles roamed the air above this unmarked waste. The Los Angeles saw no speck ...