Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-05-13
The AIRSHTP in
SERVICE IN 1915
win be Big Vessel With all Modern
Convenience and Comforts Of
Travel I'm the Air.

be conceived as having q hull OF rigid
construction. 1000 feet long and 80
feet beam. with accommodations for
I25 to $50 passengers, and crew OF
AZ men, says the May Century.
The new air liner will resemble a
submarine, or rather a flying fish.
All its parts will be compactly built
into the hull. Its under body. 500
feet long. II feet wide and nine feet
high. Will extend between the elbows
foro and aft where the hull begins
70 curve toward its pointed bow and
storm. The underbody win hold
seven passengers and eight operating
sections. after the fashion Of COM
partner. sleeping car. A continuous
passageway will extend from end to
end.
Tho prov glazed, with artificial NIL
ca, will furnish an aerial observatory.
IT'S Interior will be series OF grill
galleries, connected by steps. Here
win be the bridge, the air liners
nerve center, with signal radiation
20 all parts OF the ship. A narrow
gallery will reach the extreme nose.
where small exploring gun, swung
on d universal Joint. can be fired to-
ward most points In space On its
several platforms viii be the navigat-
Ing deck. the helm, the wireless,
the ehartroom and both meteorologi-
cal and astronomical ''obseryatorles"
Luxuries OF Liner.
Below the bridge" will be hatch
way 10 the main passage. in the fore
ward underbody or the ship, where
there Is a companlonway which IS
the ships portal Abaft Of this will be
the captains cabin. To starboard
viii begin the main passage and
staterooma. with all doors opening
on the passage. Next to the captains
quarters, in sequence. viii be OH
GERS wardroom and mess; the bar
Der shop: the first motor eompart-
ment; the toilet room; passengers
ztaterooms; passengers living quar-
tiers, central lounging, reading and
dining saloon. the width OF the ship
The saloons, glazed with openings
Of ARTIFICIAL mica, can be transform
"a into open deck space by sliding
side ports. All the stern will be
the stewards quarters, where 81
cooking will be by electricity. Meall
viii be served In each saloon. the
pantry service being operated by es
naiartor, passing through the hold,
which Will be attached to the air
ahip's entire underbody. Table ser
vice win be delivered through a traI
IN the saloon floor. Telephone ant
electric annuneiators will connec
each section with the stewards quar-
tiers. As only % passengers viii b.
accommodated in each section, blu
one steward win be required there,
All bed covering win be OF tn
highest weights. because elektrol
heaters carrying the hot exhaust Q
the motors will keep the temperatur
automatically even. while flying q
frigld attitudes. When flying low Il
the tropics the atrship may be per
fecly cooled by ventilation, onl,
the quick passage. other baggage
hand baggage win be permitted TO
going by steamer or express airshlp
Elastic Buffers for Landing.
The sides OF the hold" or tunnel
nvo feet high and eight feet wide
viii be lined with continuous tank
ing. containing gasoline fuel, to b.
forced upward into the engine room
as needed. The outside OF the hold
yin serve as the airshlp's rounde'
keel, and will enable the craft =
n0at on water; elastic buffers 70
landing win be iixed under each en-
gine section.
The eight motor compartment
viii each be equipped with one zoo
horsepower motor. transmitting eneT
~ by short steel belts. In tiattene
tnbes, TO one propeller on the sam
eide OF the hull. and to auxiliary On
ginas operating pumps that Will cor
troll the gas chambers. withdrawn
expanding gas and condensing u Int
me alrship's tubular frame. The
vim also drive powerful fans for veE
tFlating the air spaces OF the hull an
the living quarters, The eieetrI
power plants for lighting. cookin
and operation the escalator. win }
A the engine compartments.
sHurricane'' Deck.
The top Of the hull, now the zeI
pslin's observatory, win become
Iong hurricane deck" of thin. ligi
planking with side rails. Here vi
% kept ''serviee" implements; ~
alsnaer masts, carrying the "wir'
49, antennae and the yellow ''te