Aeronautics: Akron Okayed

For two days and nights last week the newly built Akron went through her ninth, last and most rigorous testflight for Navy inspectors. From her dock at Akron she flew to Cincinnati, thence along the Ohio River to Louisville. By night she flew west across Indiana and Illinois and made a surprise visit over St. Louis just before midnight. Early next morning she crossed Chicago, spent the forenoon idling along the shore of Lake Michigan. Thence to Milwaukee, and back to Chicago in the afternoon to thrill the crowds at the Yale-Chicago football game before heading east for Akron. Next day Rear Admiral George C. Day, chief of the Navy Board of Inspection & Survey, recommended that the Navy accept the airship. If Secretary of Navy Charles Francis Adams approves his recommenda- tion, preliminary work may begin on the ZRS-5.