The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 95

Sunday January jr Roc: i I MM vOM ii fa 4 1 1 3 Krv'rj Ss The Navy Dirigible, ZRS-4, a Globe Girdler for Camp Kearny Take a look at the City Hill, with its 4J2-foot tower, I If feet square at the base. Stand the Navy dirigible, ZRS-4, which will be based by 1931 at Camp Kearny, on its noic beside our City Hall, and the stern of this immense craft would top the tower by 3)3 feet. On the dimension side, the bag of this big sky goer would exceed that of the tower by eighteen feet. Or let this big craft make a Spring-street landing, and it would extend from Temple Street to within fifteen feet of hirst Street, for this white whale of the air, which before many years will be putting distances under it in big gobs from the Navy's dirigible base north of San Diego, is to be 78 feet long. The greatest dimension of the City Hall site is 800 feet.

On the flight side, the drawings by Charles H. Owent of "The Times" art staff, show how the Navy's queen of the sky roads will make the globe look like a spinning midge in space. With a cruising radius of 9,810 miles, the ZRS-4 could jump right over Hong Kong to the Gobi Desert, or miles beyond the Chinese trade metropolis. Pointed east, it would leave Moscow 3,741 miles behind before coming down on some Siberian tundra, or jump right over the pyramids and Port Said to India. Southward, Byrd, looking up some day from his camp in Little America, might see it go overhead.

As for the North Pole, the dirigible could fly up there and back, then nearly up again coming down. The airline distance from Camp Kearny to the North Pole is miles. On the speed side, the ZRS-4, like its sister ship, to be built later for Camp Kearny assignment, has a rating of 72.80 miles an hour. This means that these super-dreadnaughts of the air will tuck five and a half days behind them before coming down at some point half the world away from the starting point. It is folding up time and distance into small 1 I- I space.

1 -I 1 cA Witching Tost for Dirijpbles U. S. S. Los Angeles, little sister of the ZRS-4, leaving mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J.

Mooring masts like this one will be used wherever the higgest dirigihle tics up. --ri See Work Started Crowd assembled at Good-year-Zeppelin plant for the driving by Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of naval aeronautics, of the golden rivet Into the master ring of the ZRS-4, thus starting work on the great craft. ''hi .7 (-. 1 4 World's Largest Hangar of Goodyear-Zeppelm Corporation at Akron, 0 where ZRS-4 Is being built. This view was taken when assembly work was started on the big craft in a structure in which twelve, football games could be played all at once It is the greatest structure in the world without interior supports.

The proposed hangar at Camp Kearny will be just like it. Pacille Allanlit. I.