One hundredyears ago, the nation was preparing for Independence Day;however, in the aviation world and at the Jersey Shore, thoughts weren’t on the past, but the future. In Atlantic City, Melvin Vaniman, famed arctic explorer and photographer, was preparing his new Goodyear-constructed, 258-foot-long airship Akron for its attempted transatlantic flight. Vaniman had been the engineer on the 1910 failed attempt headed by Walter Wellman in the America.
As June was coming to an end, Vaniman was preparing for one last test flightat his giant hangar located on the south…
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