The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-01-11

tons For a Thousand Foot Craft on
New Lines, and Prominent Engineers
Praise the Design-Hundred Men In
Crew and $4,000 the Cost.
Crossing the Atlantic by airship is
now only a matter of a very short
time, according to a group Of German
capitalists, which recently formed a
company to exploit as a means of long
distance travelling a new type of dirig.
| ible balloon devised by Herr Borner
a well known German engineer, W ich
is proudly called the aerial o M
| cruiser.
Plans for the realization Of this
scheme are now well under way and
have already advanced to the point OF
| choosing the site of a hangar on the
European side of the Atlantic, the ex-
act location Of which, however, is kept
a secret for the moment.
In the near future New York will be
visited by Ernest Gunther Hensel. the
representative of the company, who
was in Paris recently, with the object
of ascertaining where would be the
most suitable landing place for aerial
cruisers bringing their load of passen.
gers from Europe.
To Cary Three Hundred Perzons.
The inventor and those backing him
assert that not only will the new bal
loon carry more han 300 persons and
make the 1000 mile journey in two
and one-half days, but they also main.
tain that safety and comfort will be
the chief features of the journey.
The specifications of the new dirigi.
BILE have already been drawn up in
t~hirty-six different sizes for various
purposes. The type destined for trans
atlantic passage will be constructed TO
navigate on the water If necessary as
well as to fly. 1t will have a length
OF about 800 meters Tor about 975 feet
by 80 meters wide and fitted with "a
benZine motors, II on each side. on an
entirely new system capable of devel-
Oping more than 5000 horsepower.
The airship will have its own power
for rising or descending, which will
permit the doing away with ballast
and take no account of loss of gas.
The average speed is estimated at
sixty-seven miles an hour. The air
ship viii have a lifting force or 30
! tons, which will enable II to carry ZIG
passengers, with a crew OF 102- The
total cost is calculated at S465,0O0.
A feature on which great stress is
laid by the inventor is the immunity
of the airship from explosion, even IL
struck by lightning. The lifting force
will be supplied by ffty-fve separate
small balloons, which are covered by
a large envelope and insulated from
the outer air by a compartment filled
with nonexplosive azote as. which
also protects the motors and their res
ervoirs.
A model airship has already been
constructed down to the smallest de-
tail, and aerial experts who have been
allowed to examine its special features
are convinced of the practicabiIity of
the scheme.
Experts Convinced.
Count George Won Der Goltz, presi-
dent Of the German Airship associa-
ton and vice president Of the Interna-
tional Aeronautic Federation, Is re-
ported 20 have said In an interview
the other day that he wouldn't hest
tate to be among the first passengers
to cross the Atlantic In 1t. He thought
that 1t would help Germany to obtain
the supremacy of the air.
After a careful examination of the
new invention he stated that Ii ap.
peared TO him as IL the element of
danger, hitherto inseparable from long
air journeys, had at last been elm
mated.
Z. Umbeck, another well known Ger.
man engineer, who has hitherto given
preference TO the aeroplape over the
1ingible for series of flights, states In
a judicially worded report, after an ex-
haustive examination of all the de-
tails, that he is % the opinion that the
inventor has baseo his ideas on sound
principles and that his experiments
and those of others made with the
new airship have opened fresh ground
In aeronautics. He also says he has
carefully checked the calculations and
found them fadltless aud concludes:
I'VE are on the eve of seeing for the
frst time a really practical and profit
able dirigible
Raoul Pictet, a Brussels authority,
p%refaces a long report by saying:
II have the pleasure Of expressing
my enthusiastic appreciation Of your
new system Of dirigible. With real
Joy hail In your splendid work new
IDEAS which will lead a~eronautic sci
ence In all unexpected direction"
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