{"id":60670,"date":"2024-06-06T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/uss-shenandoah-first-us-built-rigid-airship\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T05:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T19:00:13","slug":"the-uss-shenandoah-the-first-us-built-rigid-airship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=60670","title":{"rendered":"The USS Shenandoah: The First US-Built Rigid Airship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The USS <em>Shenandoah <\/em>was the first US-made rigid airship for the United States Navy. She was the first of four Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airship\/\">airships<\/a> but was destroyed only two years after being in service while flying through a squall. On her 57th flight, she was destroyed in Ohio in September 1925. While the USS <em>Shenandoah <\/em>has been mostly forgotten now, she was big news at the time. One hundred years later, the world is entering something of a back-to-the-future moment with many <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airships-in-development-list\/\">large cargo-carrying airships under development<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USS Shenandoah only had a short career but started the age of the Navy operating giant airships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6025,408,412,708],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-60670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airship","category-history","category-military","category-us-navy","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60671,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60670\/revisions\/60671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}