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The Morrell Airship Collapse
- JasonFruit 8y agoThat's really long for what appears to be a non-rigid airship. The Navy class-N ships were about 400 feet long, and I had thought they were the largest non-rigids; this was thirty feet longer and forty years earlier.
- benj111 8y agoThis refers to spacecraft. Is that an accepted term for airship?
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoYeah, that's weird. "Morrell constructed a 450-foot spacecraft at the Morrell Airship Company on Market Street. The craft was designed to run by gasoline engines powering wooden propeller blades draped with oiled silk." I supposed it's possible that was an accepted term in 1908, but this article was written in 2012, so I have to assume it was an error.
- larkeith 8y agoI'd taken that to be a commentary on the unusual shape and general uniqueness of the airship - especially for 1908.
- TheGrassyKnoll 8y agoSerious nads on anyone willing to climb aboard this thing.
- rangersanger 8y agonads would have been a nice addition to that thing.
- ourmandave 8y ago1908 Popular Mechanics had 3 successive articles about it. https://todayinsci.com/Events/Aircraft/MorrellAirship-Collapse.htm https://todayinsci.com/Events/Aircraft/MorrellAirship-Collap... The 2nd interviews Captain Penfold, an Australian balloon pilot that had sunk on-board.