clifford tinker went to meijer percy, and came up with a sum for $40,000 to move helium from fort worth to language to fly roma. meijer told tinker, we do not have the money, hydrogen will have to do. december 21, 1921, the day of the christening ceremony. it was a cold, windy day. roma flew into boeing field washington, d.c., with only three of six working engines. she is shimmying back-and-forth. the reason why the other three engines stopped was because of how oily they were. she kept freezing up, they could not get them restarted. one of the working engines had to be restarted midair. needless to say, this was quite a sight to see her coming in, and it was a great deal of trouble to get her to the ground. i do not know if you can see, but you will and a second, that there was something ironic that happened with the flag. the ceremony was cut short. they sent a skeleton -- skeleton crew on roma back home. we see they are dropping ropes down to the ground to attempt to pull her down. teddy roosevelt junior was there. the ambassador from italy was there, they had secretary of the war d