Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-11
AMERICAN DIRIGTBLE TO
 MAKE rRANsATLANrIc FLIGHT

New York Aug. 10 (By the A. P0- Science will be called upon to do its ut most to protect the dirigible ZR-2, latest addition to Americas navy. on her flight this month from England to the United States.
 While no string of destroyers will be flung across the Atlantic ready for pos sible rescue work, as was done when the three American naval seaplanes hoped of for the old world in 1919, four battle ships, cruiser and special weather bureau vessel will be pressed into ser vice to compile meteorological data and furnish forecasts which will guide the giant gas bag in lodging storms. For storms at sea, which mean nothing to modern battleship and are bravely weathered by destroyers may mean death to the crew of a balloon flying the At lantic. ! Even should the aircraft es- cape destruction it might be blown hun dreds of miles off it's course.
 Therefore far-fung system for scan ming the skies will be put into operation ! when the ZR-z puts out from Howden, England on her $500 mile nonstop flight to .Lakehurst, N. J.
 Along her proposed path from a point i 800 miles on the Irish coast to another ! loo miles from Jersey sands will be sta .SA 4 special staff of forecasters Each hour the radio will bring reports of wind, baromete& and temperature from as far south as San Juan, Porto Rico, to as far north as Newfoundland. Out in Nebraska, too, a governmnt weather sta- ton will be collecting similar data by means. of captive balloons and kites and I transmitting it eastward by land wire
 From the seaboard it will be Wirelessed :! to the maritime observers
 These weather men themselves will be making observations, testing wind cur
 rents at sea level and at an altitude oi
 several thousand feet, Merchant, vessels
 will be asked by radio for supplementa data.
 To a selected vessel finally will come all reports and aboard her will be chart ed a map showing disturbances advancing and receding. Then warnings will bt I nashed to the dirigible so that she may shift her course if necessary to dodge
 storm clouds. .
 l r storm celiters travel eastward witf I freousnt 2 counter, disturbances uovinl nortiYware aisuE the Atlantic coast 1 Should "a storm of more than local pro portions Drew in the middle west, it: I presence will be flashed to the Atlantis coast and thence tos the fleet at: sea. | the storm tn 7fS progress east ueVelop i increased intensity, regular inland weath Ter stations will note it and chart it
 probable course.
 The ZRf2 carries the very latest radt equipment. It will be used not only t receive weather reports, but to transmi
 daily reports of her progress.
 Serving as mediums for wireless rela
 be not only the warsaips assigned |
 weather work, but also the powerfr shore stations on both sides of the At
 .antic. e
 Abroad, the. English government sta
 tion at Howden and the French station
 at Lyons and on tie Eiffel Tower expec to be in touch with the dirigible durin
 her entire flight On this side. Sayvill' Arlington, Ottercliffs; Annapolis, Ne York Navy. Yard and several large con mercial stations will receive her fashe l To avoid interference by commerci; radio traffic.. all communications with th ; ZR-2 will be on high pitch wave lengtf
 far above the power of the aveFsg ; radio equipnient.
 F 1 Among warships assigned to the figl
 is the battleship Ohio which controlle , by wireless the movements of the LII 7 manned Iowa during the recent bombir
 tests of the Virginia Capes. The oth' ~ shios will be the battleships Utah, A
 kansas and Wyoming and the cruis'
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