Photo #: NH 84568
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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