[DOC] [TLE] USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) - Wikipedia [PAR] USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships. It was 
constructed ... The 20 gas cells within the airframe were filled to about 85% of 
capacity at normal barometric pressure. ... Helium was relatively scarce at the 
time, and the Shenandoah used much of the world's reserves just to fill its 
2,100,000 cubic... [DOC] [TLE] ZR-1 U.S.S. Shenandoah - Airships.net [PAR] Shenandoah's first flights were on-the-job training for the American Navy, which 
... For example, while the Germans typically began a zeppelin flight with gas cells 
... Upon Shenandoah's return to Lakehurst the ship was was deflated so that its 
.... the Akron used a hand full of times and the Hindenburg did as well in 1936. [DOC] [TLE] The Airship Shenandoah - 456th F.I.S. [PAR] The problem of containing hydrogen was first solved by coating cloth with a ... It 
got its name from the gold smiths who put gold in the skins and beat them to ... 
more importantly, the first major airship to be filled with a nonflammable gas, 
helium. .... The U.S.S. Shenandoah was built for the U.S. Navy as a weapons 
system,... [DOC] [TLE] Case Study 3 |authorSTREAM [PAR] Oct 22, 2009 ... In 1923 U.S. Navy built the ZR1 Shenandoah. ZR1 was the first rigid airship, 
using the non-flammable gas, constructed in the United States. [DOC] [TLE] The night history fell from the skies - The Blade [PAR] Aug 27, 2000 ... It's not much, concedes Bryan Rayner, the landowner and curator by default ... 3
, 1925, that the first U.S.-built rigid dirigible became trapped in a ... Two years 
before the crash, the Shenandoah, then identified by the U.S. Navy as ZR1, ... 
American ship contained 20 gas cells throughout the ship filled with... [DOC] [TLE] USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) - Revolvy [PAR] USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships . ... The 
20 gas cells within the airframe were filled to about 85% of capacity at normal ... 
at the time, and the Shenandoah used much of the world's reserves just to fill its 
... in the construction of the ZR1) and Cmdr Ralph D. Weyerbacher (design/build). [DOC] [TLE] USS Shenandoah - Touring Ohio [PAR] In 1919 the American government committed to build a German designed rigid ... 
For the first time in aeronautical history the large gas cells that kept the ... On 
September 2, 1925 the Shenandoah left its base in Lakehurst, NJ and turned 
westward. ... The airship ZR1 had been designed by Dr. Karl Arnstein, chief 
designer of... [DOC] [TLE] Rigid Airships Photo Index: USS SHENANDOAH (ZR-1) - Navsource [PAR] Shenandoah is a river formed by the junction of its north and south forks in 
Warren County, VA; ... The first rigid airship built in the United States, 
Shenandoah was designed by the Bureau of ... Gas volume: 2,115,174 ft (
59,895.1 m) of helium; 20 gas cells ... Official U.S. Navy photo of the future USS 
Shenandoah (ZR-1). [DOC] [TLE] Zachery Lansdowne, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy [PAR] Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne took command of USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) 
early in 1924. ... the American representative and observer to accompany the 
crew of the first ... owed their lives to the Navy's foresight and innovation; gas 
bags were filled with rare, inert helium, not hydrogen. ... USS Shenandoah ZR1 
PHOTO [DOC] [TLE] Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout: Hindenburg Disaster Ends Lighter ... [PAR] May 6, 2013 ... It ship, the U.S. Navy's ZR1 Shenandoah was built in 1923 and used ... the 
Hindenburg made its first trans Atlantic flight to Rio de Janerio, Brazil the ... lighter 
than air ships are mostly to blimps, much smaller gas filled bags... [DOC] [TLE] ZR-1, Shenandoah [PAR] The US gained interest in rigid airships due to their successful use by Germany in 
WW I. ... This Navy photo above is the mast at San Diego, California. ... to recover 
water vapor to compensate some for weight loss due to the consumption of

Question: The U.S. Navy's ZR1, Shenandoah, was its first filled with this gas
Answer: helium