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Experience with the Shenandoah's permanent mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., has convinced the U. S. Navy of the mast's immense value in anchoring rigid airships. Therefore, another mast is to be erected immediately at Tacoma, to serve as the Navy's Western station. Tests have shown that few men are needed to secure an airship to a mast, hundreds are required to take an airship in or out of a hangar; also that an airship can stay indefinitely at the mast, be refuelled and regassed there, have all but major repairs made when thus...
Hydrogen Arguments. While helium is exceedingly light as compared with air, it is somewhat heavier than hydrogen. The total lift of a helium-filled dirigible is accordingly some 10% less than that of the hydrogen-filled airship. The difference does not appear important at first sight, but the total lift of the gas carries the structure, the motors and the crew. It is only the last 20% or so that is available for carrying fuel, and hence a difference of 10% in the gross lift may spell a difference of 50% in the fuel-carrying capacity. On long-distance flights...
Every nine months or so, a dirigible has to slough its outer skin. Every year the interior gasbags have to be removed. Between renewals both the inner and outer fabric system have to be constantly repaired. The Airship Construction Co. of Detroit, said to be backed by Edsel Ford, is experimenting with a new form of covering and interior cell, to be built entirely of very thin sheet duralumin, not more than one one-hundredth of an inch in thickness...
...Navy is bitterly disappointed at the abandonment of the so-called Pole-flight plans (TiME, Feb. 18). Its disappointment may be still greater if the British get the chance of which the Americans were deprived. Commander F. M. Boothby, British airship expert, is trying to borrow the R36 from the Air Ministry on the plea that he can fly from England to the Pole, in 96 hours there and back, at an expenditure of only $25,000. The Labor Air Minister is cold to his plans. "Airships are for military purposes, not for stunts...
...airship must drop ballast under conditions beyond the captain's control, is it to be held responsible for any damage done...