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Photo # NH 67775: Control car of USS Los Angeles, circa 1925

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USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), Airship 1924-1939 --
Miscellaneous Views


This page features miscellaneous views related to USS Los Angeles (ZR-3).

For more views of USS Los Angeles, see:

  • USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), Airship 1924-1939.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 67775

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    View of the airship's control car, taken while she was resting in the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1925.
    Note sandbag weights used to keep the airship from lifting off the wooden supporting structure.
    Photographed by Clements.

    Courtesy of Commander Robert L. Ghormley, Jr., USN(SC)-Retired, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 435 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67774

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    View of the airship's control car, taken while she on the ground at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1925.
    Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore D. Robinson was on board the airship at the time.

    Courtesy of Commander Robert L. Ghormley, Jr., USN(SC)-Retired, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67772

    Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore D. Robinson
    (in the window in right center)

    In the control car of USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1925.

    Courtesy of Commander Robert L. Ghormley, Jr., USN(SC)-Retired, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67773

    Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore D. Robinson
    (in the window in right center)

    In the control car of USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), while the airship was at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1925.

    Courtesy of Commander Robert L. Ghormley, Jr., USN(SC)-Retired, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-462136

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    Flies over ships of the U.S. Fleet, circa 1930. Photographed from on board the airship, with two of her engine cars in the foreground. Ships below are USS Patoka (AO-9), closest to the camera, and the aircraft carriers Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 80771

    Vought UO-1 observation airplane
    (Bureau # A-6615)

    Parked at an airfield, 1929. This airplane has been equipped for hook-on experiments with USS Los Angeles (ZR-3).

    Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80774

    Vought UO-1 observation airplane
    (Bureau # A-6615)

    Attached to the trapeze of USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), during mating experiments in the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, 15 December 1928.

    Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     

    Additional View: Photo # NH 60296, an aerial view of USS Patoka (AO-9) in Panama Bay, Panama, in January 1931, was taken from USS Los Angeles.

    For more views of USS Los Angeles, see:

  • USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), Airship 1924-1939.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 31 October 2002
    New image added 6 November 2002