Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-17
A|RSH|P OF The
NEAR FUTURE.
What Two Authorities Think Il
viii Be Like.
HUGE MODEL OF COMFORT.
Will Resemble Flying Fish and Be
Capable, It 10 Claimed, Of Travelling
Seventy five Miles an Hour TO
Carry About $50 Passengers and
Crew Of Fortytwo Men.

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The most recent developments in
Germany's efforts to reduce air navi-
CATION to a science and the plans for
the transatlantic voyage above the
clouds proposed for about the middle
Of May by the German aeronaut Dr..
Gans-Fabrice, lately president Of the
Frankfort Aeronautical exposition, and
Joseph Brucker of Berlin in two
dirigibles are discussed by T. r. Mac
Mechen and Carl Dienstbach. two au-
thors Of works on airships and dirigi-
bles, in the May Century, and the air.
ship Of the near future is described in
part as follows:
From the standard Of present devel-
opment the airship of 1915 may be
conceived as having a hull of rigid
construction, 1000 feet long and so
feet beam, with accommodations for
125 to $50 passengers and crew Of
AZ men.
The new air liner will resemble
submarine or. rather. flying fish. All
its parts will be compactly built into
the hull. Its underbody, 800 feet
long, IL feet wide and 8 feet high.
will extend between the elbows fore
and aft where the hull begins to curve
toward its pointed bow and stern.
The underbody will hold seven pas
sengers and eight operating sections.
after the fashion of a compartment
sleeping car. A continuous passage
way will extend from end to end.
All Cooking by Electricity.
Below the bridge will be a hatch
way to the main passage in the for
ward underbody of the ship, where
there is companionway which is the
ships portal. Abaft Of this will be the
captains cabin. TO starboard will be-
gin the main passage and staterooms,
with all doors opening on the passage.
Next to the captains quarters, In Sc
quence, will be officers and engineers
staterooms, officers wardrOom and
mess. the barber shop, the first motor
compartment, the toilet room, passen-
gers staterooms, passengers living
quarters, central lounging, reading
and dining saloon the width Of the
ship. At the stern will be the stew
ards quarters. where all cooking will
be by electricity. Meals will be serv-
ed in each saloon, the pantry service
through the ''hold," which will be at
tached to the airship's entire under
body. Table service will be delivered
through trap in the saloon floor.
Telephone and electric annunciators
will connect each section with the
stewards quarters.
All bed covering will be Of the light
est weights. because elektron heaters
carrying the hot exhaust of the motors
will keep the temperature automatical-
ly even while flying at frigid attitudes.
When flying low in the tropics the air
ship may be perfectly cooled by ven
tilation. Only hand baggage will be
permitted for the quick passage.
Built to Float on the Water.
The sides Of the hold" or tunnel,
five feet high and eight feet wide. will
be lined with continuous tanking, con-
tanning gasoline fuel, to be forced up
ward into the engine rooms as needed.
The outside of the hold" will serve
as the airship's rounded keel and will
enable the craft to float on water.
Elastic buffers for landing will be
fixed under each engine section.
The eight motor compartments will
each be equipped with one 200 horse
power motor. transmitting energy by
short steel belts in f1attened tubes to
one propeller on the same side Of the
hull and to auxiliary engines operating
pumps that will control the gas cham
bers, withdrawing expanding gas and
condensing it into the airship's tubu-
lar frame. They will also drive pow
erful fans for ventilating the air
spaces of the hull and the living quar-
tiers.
"eoats" to 30 Carried.
The top of the hull. now the Zep-
pelin's observatory, will become long
Hurricane deck" Of thin, light plank
ing, with side rails. Here will be
kept service" implements, two slen-
der %masts carrying the wireless"
antennae and the yellow top lights"
observatories for cloud triangulation
and taking the altitude Of stars.
searchlights. kite winch and the air
ships boats" two small, swift aero
plane scouts" one fore, the other aft.
with ample space for launching and
alighting. The deck will be reached
by small winding openwork stairs
through the hull. The hull will be d.
vided into twenty gas tight compart-
ments for sustaining the airship in
space. Along the port and starboard
sides five seats Of curved aeroplane
surfaces will help to lift and support
the airship or steer it up and down.
They will be ''stepped'' to avoid inter-
ference. Between them will be eight
propellers. four on each side. at alter
mating levels along the hull.
It is believed that within five years
such an air liner will be capable Of
travelling seventy-hve miles an hour