95 years ago – May 12, 10:00 a.m. (Greenwich Mean Time)
95 years ago – May 12, 10:00 a.m. (Greenwich Mean Time)

95 years ago – May 12, 10:00 a.m. (Greenwich Mean Time)

The airship continues to navigate for two days in constantly adverse weather conditions, consuming tons of fuel but replacing its weight, inexorably, with a corresponding amount of ice that accumulates in the march among the clouds, it cannot be eliminated in any way except when it detaches itself due to the weight or by temporary heating of the envelope in the sun. Some fragments of ice, detaching from the envelope on the sides of the airship, hit the propellers in motion and are fired against the hull, damaging the cloth, which must be rushed to mend.

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