A Similar Installation on the other Side of Cabin Controls Vertical Rudder and Horizontal Movements. The control of a Zepellin type airship is not as simple as that of an airplane and no one man is at the controls. Special controls are provided for the elevators and still another set for the vertical rudders. The elevator control of the L59 with the instruments for altitude navigation is shown at Fig. Control is by a large wheel similar to the steering wheel of a ship.
Directional control is by a similar wheel at another part of the control car.
Comparing the Size of the U. S. Navy Shenandoah or ZR1 with a Propdsed Military Airship Having More than Three Times its Cubical Contents. Large Airship Projected. The largest of the United States Navy airships, the Shenandoah was 600 feet long with a capacity of 2,115,000 cubic feet. The projected airship designed by the engineers of the Goodyear- Zepellin Company, while it has over three times the capacity of the Shenandoah will be only 100 feet longer and will be of such size that it may be housed in the Lakehurst hangar. The illustration at Fig.