Chicago Photographed from Ray Knabenshue's Dirigible Air Ship (enhanced).webm

Chicago Photographed from Ray Knabenshue's Dirigible Air Ship The first successful passenger dirigible flight in the United States National Archives Identifier: 95608 Local Identifier: KNAB-KNAB-201 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/95608 From: Series: Motion Picture Film, 1914 - 1914 Collection: Roy Knabenshue Collection, 1914 - 1914 This item was produced or created: 1914 Scope & Content: On the first successful passenger dirigible flight in the United States. Shows the dirigible leaving its hangar, ascending, in flight, and being berthed. Aerial views of Chicago include suburban residential districts, parkways around the city, public beaches, harbor scenes, golf courses, railroad yards, downtown office buildings, and tenement districts. Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM) National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-3540 On June 17, 1914, Ray Knabenshue 's dirigible White City made its first Chicago flight, a 24-minute trip over the city’s parks and Lake Michigan with eight passengers aboard. It flew for an hour and a half on June 26. “The airship left White City shortly after 4 o’clock,” Aero and