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Editorial Paragraphs
October 15, 1930 issue

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The article throws light on England's dirigible, R-101 which has met disaster in France with a loss of forty seven lives. Unconsidered judgment should not, however be passed upon the value of dirigibles because of this accident. The deplorable tragedy that overtook the R-101 at Beauvais does not prove that airships of this type have no place in the future of aeronautics; it merely proves that much has still to be learned, at least in countries other than Germany, concerning the construction of dirigibles. The fate of R-101 proves beyond question the need for developing a non-explosive and non-inflammable lifting gas similar to the helium used by the U.S. Navy.

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AIRSHIPS; AERONAUTICS; HELIUM; AIRSHIPS -- Accidents; BEAUVAIS (France); FRANCE
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