Bridgeton pioneer., 1913-01-09
SWIFT SKY SHIP J
TO CROSS OCEAN
VIII Garry 300 Persons at 6l
Miles an Hour.
TWO AND A HALF DAY JOURNEY
German Inventor Has Drawn Speeifiea'
tions For a Thousand Foot Graft or
New Lines, and Prominent Engineer
Praise the Desisn-Hundred Men W.
Crew and s415,ooo the Cost.

New Lines, and Prominent engineer
Praise the Design-Hundred Men W.
Crew and s415,ooo the Cost.
Crossing the Atlantic by airship is
now only a matter Of a very shori
time, according to a group of German
capitalists, which recently formed
company TO exploit as means OF long
distance travelling new type OF d1r1g'
ible balloon devised by Herr Borner
n well known German engineer, which
is proudly called the aerial ocean
cruiser
Plans for the realization of this
scheme are now well under way and
have already advanced to the point oil
choosing the site of 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 Carry Three Hundred Persons.
The inventor and those backing him
assert that not only will the new bal
loon carry more than 800 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
thirty-six different sizes for various
purposes. The type destined for trans
atlantic passage will be constructed to
navigate on the water if necessary as
we'll as to fly. 1t will have length
of about 300 meters Tor about 975 feet
by 80 meters wide and ftted 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 will have a lifting force of 210
tons, which will enable it to carry 21d
passengers, with a crew of 1O2. The
total cost is calculated at $465,000.
A feature on which great stress is
lot Nv ho In fc tho fr1r fu
of the airship from explosion, even if
struck by lightning. The lifting force
will be supplied by fifty-five separate
small balloons, which are covered by
a large envelope and insulated from
the outer air by q compartment filled
with nonexplosive azote gas. 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 practicability 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 to have said in an interview
the other day that be wouldn't hesi-
tate to be among the first passengers
to cross the Atlantic in it. He thought
that it would help Germany to obtain
the supremacy of the air.
After careful examination of the
new invention he stated that it ap-
peared to him as if 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 aeroplane over the
diigible for series of flights, states in
a 1udicially worded report, after an ex-
haustve examination of all the de-
tails. that he is of the opinion that the
inventor has based 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 faultless aud concludes:
I'VE are on the eve of seeing for the
nrst time a really practical and profit
able dirigible"
Raoul Pictet. a Brussels authority.
prefaces long report by saying:
i have the pleasure of EXPRESSING
my enthusiastic appreciation of your
Pew system of dirigible. With real
JOY l hail in your splendid work now
IDEAS which will lead aeronautic sci
ence in an unexpected direction"
John Rrawn,s Exanu4;a