Shenandoah's Last Flight

摘要

Port engines, up flank speed!" It was 3:30 a.m. on September 3, 1925, and in the control cabin of the huge cigar-shaped di- rigible Shenandoah its skipper, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lans- downe, was worried. It was proving in- creasingly difficult to keep the 690-foot airship steady in the mounting turbu-lence over southeastern Ohio. "Starboard engines, hold standard," called Lans- downe. "Valve cells four and five."