Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Prediction Made That 1t Will Be
Capable of TRAVELLING rs
Miles an Hour.
WILL BE LIKE A FLYING FISH.
Dream of Magazine Writer, the Full
fllment of Which Is Not Be-
yond Realm of Possibility.

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, with crew of
forty-two men.
The new air liner will resemble a
submarine, or rather a flying fish, a
writer in the Century says. All its
parts will be compactly built into the
hull. Its under body, 500 feet long
II feet wide and 9 feet high, will ex-
tend between the elbows fore and aft
where the hull begins to curve toward
its pointed bow and stern. The I'M
derbody will hold seven passengers
and eight operating sections, after the
fashion of a compartment sleeping
car. A continuous passageway will ex-
tend from end to end.
The PROV, glazed with artificial
mica, will furnish an aerial observa-
tory. Its interior will be 2 series of
grill galleries, connected by steps
Here will be the bridge" the air
liners nerve center, with signal radia.
"A
row gallery will reach the extreme
nose, where a small exploring gun,
swung on a universal joint, can be
fired toward most points in space. On
Its several platforms will be the navi-
eating deck, the helm, the wireless"
the chartroom and both meteorological
and astronomical "observatories."
Below the bridge" will be a hatch
way to the main passage in the for
ward underbody of the ship, where
there Is companion way which is the
ships portal. Abaft of this will be the
captains cabin.
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 afrships 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 2OO-horse-
power motor. The electric power
plants, for lighting, cooking and oper-
at1ng the escalator, will be In the en-
CINE compartments.
The top of the hull now the Zeppe-
Inns observatory, will become a long
hurricane deck" of thin. light plank
Ing, with side rails Here will be kept
service implements; two slender masts.
carrying the wireless" atenna and
the yellow top lights; observatories
FOR cloud triangulation and taking the
attitude OF stars; searchlights, kite
winch and the airship's boats" two
small, swift aeroplane "scouts"-one
fore, the other aft, with ample space
Tor launching and alighting. Along the
port and starboard sides five sets of
curved aeroplane surfaces will helm tn
lift and support the airship or steer
1t up and down. They will he
stopped to avoid interference. Be-
tween them will be eight small propell-
ers, four on each side, at alternating
levels along the hull.
1t is believed that within five wears
such an air liner will be capable of
travelling seventy-five miles an hour.
ordinarily, and often 120 miles, in the
upper levels.
In ten years an airship driven fifty
miles an hour may perchance make
that trip in eight days. flying at
speed of 120 miles an hour, or 5000
day. Is it all a dream? Ten years
ago prophecy of the present achieve
ments of German air navigators would
have been received with incredulity.