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You are of course right, Barrett. It was the Navy not the Army. The passage I was thinking of appears in William H Longyard's WHO'S WHO IN AVIAION HISTORY:
"Von Zeppelin himself was an able airship pilot, even into his seventies. After a Zeppelin exploded killing twenty-eight men in 1915, he became embroiled in a policy dispute with the Naval Office which resulted in him turning his back on his own creation."
I was wondering if anyone knew the details of the dispute. Having re-read the passage now, I assume it was to do with safety issues.
Vig.
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