P Parsevals, airships, 25. Peck, Commander S. E., C-5 flight, 15. Pilgrim, airship, 26, 31, 33, 66; launching, 66. Pony Blimp, airship, 47, 50. Preston, R. A. D., pilot, 13, 15. R R-34, Atlantic Crossing, 15, 16; size, 25. Radio, first use of, 55. Reichelderfer, Commander F. W., chief U. S. Weather Bureau, 62. Rieker, John, pilot, 58, 65. Roma, Italian-built airship, 35. Rosendahl, Captain, C. E., photograph opp. vi, 17, 37. Rounds, Lt. C. S., ballast pick-up, 40, 66. RS-1, army airship, 25, 30. Rubber, use of synthetics, 35. S San Diego, USS, sunk by mine, 2. Santos Dumont, illust. opp. 22; first flights, 27. Settle, Commander T. G. W., photograph opp. vi, 38. Sewell, A. T., pilot, 56, 57, 58, 65. Shenandoah, USS, 29. Sheppard, S. H., pilot, 54, 57. Smith, Alfred E., 36, 48. Smith, Verne, pilot, 57, 58. T TC-14, airship, 17, 19. Trotter, F. A., pilot, bullet holes in ship, 53, 58, 66. U Upson, R. H., pilot, 13. V Van Orman, W. T., balloon pilot, 46. Volunteer, airship, 39; cross country trip, 55; masting out, 39. W Westover, General, 30. Wilson, R. D., pilot, Everglades rescue, 48, 57. Wright brothers, first flight, 21. Footnotes [1]See U.S. Navy Publication, “German Submarine Activities on the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Canada,” 1920, also the book, “German Subs in Yankee Waters”—Henry J. James, 1940. Transcriber’s Notes —Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication. —Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged. —In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.) End of Project Gutenberg's The Story of the Airship (Non-rigid), by Hugh Allen