The Navy base at Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the nursery, proving ground, and home base for most of the nation’s airship history. Outside its gates is a stone chapel that commemorates the history of human flight, and memorializes the lives lost in its pursuit. The chapel was built in 1933, between the crash of the Akron, and the Macon, identical twins 785 feet long, the largest flying objects ever made in the USA. One crashed in the Atlantic, the other in the Pacific. There is a plaque commemorating the lives lost in the USS Shenandoah, when it crashed in Ava, Ohio in 1925, two years after it was built in Hangar 1 at Lakehurst. Inside the small cathedral are more than a dozen stained glass windows that depict historic moments in aviation history. The windows, installed between 1933 and 1957, cover real and allegorical notions of flight, from the magic carpets of the Arabian Nights, to jet airplanes at Edwards Air Force Base. Also depicted are Icarus, Roman carrier pigeons, the first parachute, 18th century French balloons, the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, the first transatlantic air journey, the first airmail flights, and more airships. Looking up at the window showing the airships that once flew by outside this very window, one sees, instead, their depiction in the colored glass, like an overlay, or projection into the sky.