Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-12-31
DREADN0uCHT OF
AIR FOR BRITAIN
Biggest Oirjgib|e Planned 10
Sail 100 Miles an Hour.
COST OF BUILDING $225,00o.

Inventor Figures That 5000 Horse
power Motors Would Send It 1900
Niles At Twenty Milo Gait Carrying
Quick Firing Guns, Wireless Outfit
and Searc hIights.
Plans for a dirtglble which will
travel at a hundred miles IN hour and
carry quick firing guns, searchlights.
long range wireless equipment te1e'
Photographic apparatus and other up
to date accessories for use in war have
J been made by q. Neale, young Eng
lish aviator, who is about to appeal
for the sum of $225.0OO to build the
.airslip.
Mr.. Neale has made a few good aero
plane flights In England, but he Is not
in the front rank Of Tying men.
Wants m Air Fleet.
His ambition is to have a deet Of
these aerial cruisers, as he calls them,
so as to give Great Britain command
of the air and 'tplace her In the fore
front of aerial navigation instead Of
tamely following the lead OF nations
who now sell to England what they
do not themselves require"
In this caustic comment, Of course,
he referred to the purchase OF ths
French Lebaudy and Clement-B ayard
airships.
The dfrdgible be contemplates would
exceed in size and equipment anything
that has get been built 1t would
weigh 74,286 pounds, Of which $4,000
pounds would be taken up with the
petrol required. The motors would
develop 5000 horsepower, and there
would be eleven eighteen-foot propel.
lers. The gas would be warmed by
passing cooling water through radia.
tors inside the envelope.
Wide Travel Range.
At the maximum speed Of 100 miles
an hour the dirigible would have a
travel range of 1000 miles and at a
cruising speed Of twenty miles an hour
10;94O miles.
He has carried out a number Of sci.
entific experiments, and he IS prepared
to submit his design ~1 data to a
committee of experts. He is likely,
however, to wait long time before he
gets the necessary amount to build
even one such dirigible.
The British war Office is extending
the balloon establishment at Farnbor-
ough, near Aidershot, with view to q
big development in aviation matters.
Early next year definite types for air.
ships and aeroplane construction will
be fixed. 1t is believed that the fu-
ture. so far as the dirigible is con-
cerned, lies with an airship In which
high and sustained speed is combined
with small surface. Vessels of great
bulk would be too conspicuous targets
for artillery.
Speedy Scout the Ideal.
A fast aerial scout which can carry
a machine gun and have lifting ca
pacity Of about two tons is regarded
as the ideal vessel for war purposes.
To test this view comparison will be
made within the next few months Of
the small dirigibles Delta, Beta and
Gamma with the two French airships
recently acquired by the British war
office.
Purchases are being made of sam
pies Of most types of aeroplanes by
the British government in order to
facilitate the experimental work which
has been started at burlington. Off,
GERS of the army, no matter to which
branch they belong, are being invited
to Join the air corps which is to form
the nucleus of the aeroplane instruc-
uonal staff.
The factory will make all the aero
planes required once British army
type has been evolved.