Last of the L. A.

Two years ago, for reasons of economy, the Navy airship Los Angeles was decommissioned, stripped of engines and helium, placed in dead storage at Lakehurst, N. J. Last week, all skin & bones, the 10-year-old "L. A." was declared unfit for further flight because of deterioration of her metal structure. Of the world's rigid dirigible airships she was the first to die of natural old age.

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