By night pairs of blinking red & green lights mark the outlines of the U. S. S. Akron. By sunlight she is a shining, fat silver cigar. In fog or clouds, Pilot Ray Fuller of American Airways said last week, she is a "grey hulk" and a "menace." Pilot Fuller was flying the mail between New Orleans and Atlanta when his ship bored into a cloud bank near Mobile, Ala. Suddenly, he said, the Akron loomed dead ahead of him. He "punched the plane into a sharp wingover at 120 m. p. h. and came out underneath the dirigible." Said...
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