The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-22
TRY AIRSHIPS
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passenger airshlp may reach Homo
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BERLIN, October 5.--An unlnter-
hupted aerial voyage OF sixteen hours
and over, In a stretch Of between 500
and 700 miles, Is the goal German
aeronauts have for themselves, as the
result Of new plans announced by
Count Zeppelin, Airship experts IN
Berlin who are aware Of the Counts
projects believe that the result lndi-
Gated Will be reached on the occasion
of the inventors next experiments.
Count Zeppelin is now working on a
new model, with large rand improved
steering apparatus and more powerful
motors. While he discOurnges extraya-
CANT claims, his admirers say that, UNI
der ordinary atmospheric conditions
his airshiD can attain a speed OF forty
or fifty miles an hour The fact has
been determined that the balloon dur
ing its recent flight, when II had
weaker motors reached (speed Of
thirty miles an hour, and, after eight
hours flight, had sufficient supply OF
benzine on hand 10 warrant the expec-
teton that II could have remained up
as long again.
BERLIN, October G.-The science OF
aerial navigation. at least I'm Germany,
has reached a point where many Of tho
most prominent Investigators are ask
ing themselves IN which direction they
shall pursue their experiments. The
problem Of steering is satisfactorily
solved, but there remains the imDOr-
tant question Of the conquest Of the
contrary currents Of afr, and this rails
es the Issue between the advocates OF
Lighter Than the AIR" and Heavier
Than the Air"
Balloons inflated with gas are gen!
orally regarded here as having nearly
n not quite attained the final stage
Of their possibilities, which, II r. con-
tended, although marvellous In com
parison with the position Of nearly five
years ago, stll leaves much 10 be
achieved before the air can be said To
be mastered.
All three systems-the rigid, thy
semi-rigid and the 1exlble-represent-
ing respectively the Siderable balloon
Of Count Zeppelin, the German aero
naut, the military balloon and that Of
Major Won Parzyai, have been and still
are being tested. All have given evil
dence OF the fact that IN Hight winds
and otherwise favorable weather they
may be gteered and Unanswered with
, great facility. The greatest creed A.
tained by any Of them, and this aD.
plies also 10 French balloons, has mol
/ exceeded, in round figures, twenty
J eight miles an hour. In good vino
they would be driven backward. Ever
the Zeppelin, which rs credited with
speed OF thirty-three or th'fty-foul
miles an hour, would do little nl0rl
than hold its own.
, A. 20 form, the Cighr-shape1 main
, tains lts favor but the manner of con
structiOn on which II 10 argued d.
+. ponds the capacity Of the balloon 4
} remain IN the afr 10 varied. In ZeD
D Delln's balloon the envelope Is entlrcil
J OF aluminium covered with silk AM
. rubber In the military alrshlD tn
r lower portion Of tire main body e o
metal and covered with silk and rUb
Der, the upper portion being ~ ordin
airy balloon material Pafzyal's hal
|. loon Is entirely cOmpoBe1 81 neylbi
/, material, similar 20 that used Il
spherical balloons.
The voyages OF the Parzval ana mill
1 tary balloons, as we'll as tho Frsncl
! airshipg, all Of which are either semi
rigid or flexible. have been iinrtsd u