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A giant airship sets out on a cross-country tour, testing the viability of lighter-than-air travel for the U.S. Navy. In the skies above Ohio, something goes wrong and the SHENANDOAH breaks apart. A century later, a few artifacts and dedicated historians help keep the story alive.
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And the control car with most of the officers, I think 14 of them, dropped away and fell to earth and killed everybody in the control car. The upper section, the dirigible section, if you will, broke into two pieces and both of those pieces floated to earth.
“He tied it to a fence post but it did not want to hold so they ended up shooting holes in the gas cells so that it would lay onto the ground and those men all got off.”
“They keep changing the way the mascot looks and for a few years they made it, you know, how the Shenandoah is a nice slender, you know, well, sometimes they get more of a blimpy look to it and he never liked that. He said, that's not really what the Shenandoah looked like.”
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