The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-12-17
Prediction Is Made That Huge
Craft Will Be Used in Regular
Transatlantic Trips.
AIR LINER IS ON THE way
Long Distance Craft Of the Future Nav
BE Plane, but Experts at London
Conference Predict Lighter.
Than-Air Type.

l.ondon.--In awarding prizes recent
~ for heW types of airplanes built by
British manufacturers, the govern
ment took occasion to depiore what it
viewed Us retrogreSs:on in The field
of aerial research. Manufacturers of
aircraft, in answering the criticism. re-
piled that one could not hope, in times
of peace, for as rapid developments as
were possible when the eNigcucies of
war made expense and human life COM
paratively of little importance.
Nevertheless. some bold predictions
have been made ut the air conference
which met at the Guildhall. There
We're, OF course. speeches which embOd-
led the dreams OF every reader of
Jules Verne or H. &. Wells. al ii there
We're graphic pictures OF the great air
liners of the future. But here also
We're sober talks by distinguished sci
entistS. who paid more attention to
such practical details as wing tips and
automatic controls than to visions.
The air liner is on the way. there is
no doubt about that: but it's going To
come as a result of tirelesS and patient
research and experimenting; il is go
ing II enlhody a detail here and Il Sug-
geStion there, and when it is finally
turned out on Il profitable basis IL
VIII provide mode OF travel Is safe
as and Infinitely more swift rhan any
land transport
Craft Eight Hundred Feet Lena.
The long distance aircraft of the flu
,ule may be an airnlane, but i, is more
likely that lighter-than-air type will
prevail.
What are the requirements for
craft capable Of carrying ont suS-
tanned Hight, say, from England to
Australia?
According to the experts ut the
Gu,idhall, each craft would rp about
800 feet long. with II gas capacity nf
nj least 100000 cubic feet. Tie II"
dirigihleS already constructed in Eng
land hold more than $500 900 cubic
feet. So that this seems by 30 means
All impossible provision. An average
speed of GO miles an hour would he
reGuired-So something already achieved
II is estimated that dirigble con-
structed on this basis would carry 100
passengers. for whom comfortable.
properly heated and we'll ventilated
living, dining and sleeping quarters
would he provided.
InaSmuch as the dirigible would fly
in a direct line, it would he able to
make the tLond0n-Cape Town Journey
III five days. whereas the ocean trip
row requires Is days. India might
be reached in four days, as against l6
at present.
Even though passengcr-cnrrying at
first might not prove practicable, it
seems probable that before long malls
FOR the fringes Of the British empire
may be carried by the air route. 1t is
calculated that the whole weekly mail
from Britain for Egypt, South Africa,
India, Australia and New Zealand
could be transported in one dirigible
for each route. Sir Trevor Dawson.
of Vickers, Limited.
the great aeronautic firm, is authority
for the statement that the fire danger
for a dirgible is really no greater
l:,an that of any ocean liner.
One Of the great drawbacks to the
use of the dirigibles-the difficulty Of
ho,lsing them in stOrins-may he avoid
ri by moor;ng them to great masts