Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-30
GIANT SHIP 11OO FEET
 LONG ID BE
 IN CONTEST
Latest Lighter-Than Air Will Go 85 Miles an Hour and : Carries Crew of B Men lU. s. Entry in Historic Event
 to Be l26 Foot Biplane, En-
 gined With Liberty Motors

NEW YORK, March 29.-Much in
 terest is being shown throughout the
 country in the race for the honor
 of being the first man to fly across the Atlantic ocean.
 Lieut.. Com. Patrick N L. Bellinger hopes to give America the record for the first flying across the Atlantic. His ship, the N. c. l, is being made ready at the United States naval training station at Rockaway Point, N Y. Two others will be ready in reserve, on the day of the getaway. The NC1 is a biplane with wing spread of 126 feet inches. There is F feet be- tween upper and lower wings at the engine section and the width of the wings is F feet. Three Liberty mo- tors of 400-horsepower each turn the three propeIlors. Addition of a fourth motor is considered.
 Harry Hawker, a British aviator, yhas gone to the Newfoundland coast to start flight for the London Daily tMail's $50,0O0 prize. His machine is a Sopworth, two-seat biplane, 375 Horsepower engine, boat-shaped fuse F1age. Hawker won the worlds rec ord for continuous flight, and the Brit ish M1chelin prize for 1912. His time up was 8 hours, p minutes.
 In the meanwhile the Aero Club of America has been thrown into a state of near-panic by cable dispatches that the British navy has a giant dirgible all ready for the flight across the At lantic. But for labor troubles, accord ing to the cablegram, the ship would have been across the Atlantic and back again before this. The airship is the R-39, constructed by Arm strong, Whitworth & Co., of Glasgow, and it may start the transatlantic voyage any day.
 If America does not look sharp the transatlantic flight will be made by the British before we are ready to launch our own attempts" said Alan R. Hawley, president of the Aero Club.
 Officials of the club have just re- | ceived a copy of the British air min AolAgg HnOmln6 ludl luC u6NelODmCnI of the lighter-than-air machine has been. if possible, more striking than the heavier-than-air machine, and that the dirigible type is possibly better fitted to make the ocean crossing than the aeroplane.
 The tremendous advance that has been made in dirigfble construction l since the beginning of the war has made possible the crossing of the At lantic with the new type of ship now ready at Glasgow.
 Bad Weather No Handicap.
 In~1914 the average endurance of a German rigid dirigible at cruising speed was under one day, and the maximum full speed about 50 miles an hours. In the German L-70 class (2.195,000 cubic feet capacity) the en- durance at 45 miles per hour has risen to "A days-during which 5000 miles would be covered-and the maxi mum full speed to 77.6 mIles per hour Hhe ceiling-that is the altitude at- tainable - has correspondingly in- creased from 5000 feet to 23,OOO feet.  But in the still larger British R-3S class (2,720.0O0 cubic feet capacity) the ship has an estimated cruising endurance at 45 miles per hour of S.S days, S4 hours greater than the Ger man L-70 class.
 Bad weather will not appreciably hinder a rigid in flight, and it's chief operational handicap mas so far been the probability that it will sooner or later be caught out in a high wind lasting for a longer period than the endurance of the srip," says the Brit ish report. 'If the endurance increased 1 to a sufficient extent, it will be pos sible to carry out flights with reg ularity comparable to that maintained | by surface craft. The range, practic- | ally speaking, is almost unlimited ahd 1 the weight carrying capacity large. l A 1O,OOO,OOO cubic feet capacity rigid l will have dispOnsable lift of over 200 | tons, which is available for petrol, bal f1ast, crew, passengers, freight, in vary ing proportions desirable.