Would inventor’s steam-powered metal airship have worked?

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 2 p.m.

If so, the Linn County lad might have revolutionized air travel. But a launch-day disaster ruined his prototype, the Great Depression scared off all his investors, and the Hindenburg disaster ended the era of airship travel. (Glendale, Calif.; 1929) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1602c.pt2-slate-metal-airship-inventor-379.html)