The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-05-30

the navy's battle fleet 1t is pointed out that,
by reason of its greater speed, the airshps can
cover several times the area in reconnaissance
work than a surface ship can and so permit more
money, men and metal to be diverted to strictly
fighting units.
This advantage will be heightened by the fact
that the airships will carry several arpanes in
a garage within the ships hull; these planes
to be released as needed and picked up AFTER
wards while in flight Such fleet of ships and
planes could patrol the entire Atlantic seaboard
and prevent any concentrated movement against
the coast remaining unobserved and unchallenged.
And the military airships will be of great value
to arplane itself in largely increasing its radius
of action.
Another advantage of this type of arship, as
has already been pointed out lies in the fact that
the puncture of a single gas cell will not send it
to the ground. There are many such cells and
even if ridded with bullet holes diffusion of gas
would be slow and the cells could easily be re-
paired during flights Military experts also point
to the fact that its speed, altitude and its convoy
of fighting airplanes carried inside its body would
make it highly invulnerabe to attack
1t is probable that one of the new ships will be
stationed at Lakehurst, where the navy's pres
ent air station is located and that the other will
go to the west coast, where second major air
ship base may be located
Airship adherents declare also that ships SINH
lar to these being built for the navy will be used
extensively before long in long distance transpor-
tation, both transcontinenta and transoceanic.
These ships can fly at Sc miles per hour and have
cruising radius of 5000 miles at full speed and
5000 miles at cruising speed
With Transatlantic airshp line in operation
a passenger could leave New York on a Saturday
morning, arrive two days later, on Monday morn
ing at London or Paris, spend four days on his
business affairs, leave Europe on Friday morn
ing taking three days on the return trip against
the prevailing westerly winds, arriving in New
York again Monday morning.
In recommending the building of two ships the
naval bureau of aeronautics cited some of the
noteworthy flights by Zeppelin ships as indcat-
ing the usefulness in long range reconnaissance.
One of the most famous of these was the trip
of the L-69 during the World war, shortly before
Count Ieppelin's death. colonial force had
been surrounded in n town in German East Africa
and Zeppelin ship was QUILTED at Jambo Bull
garia, to go to its relief carrying munitions, ma
chine guns and medicine. The ship was to be
dismanted on arriva-the metal structure to be
used for strengthening the defenses and the fab
RIGS as tents for the soldiers.
The ship had flown 1000 miles down the Nile
valley and across the desert when it got news
by wireless that the besieged force had sur
rendered Without stopping for refueling it re-
traced its course back to Bulgaria. The flight
was 1920 miles, lasting better than four days.
The first craft to cross the Atlantic from east
to west against the prevailing winds was the
British R-34 which, in 1919, made round trip
from England to Mitchell Field j. l.
The navy airship Los Angeles, built at Fried
rchslafen, in centra Europe, was delivered to the
navy at Lakehurst n. j., in Hight of $500
miles, consuming 81 hours. The Los Angeles since
has flown to Cuba, West Indies and the Canal
Zone and recently completed trip to San An
tonic, Texas where t refueled and returned to
its station.
The longest trip made by any arship was that
of the Shenandoah, in fight OF approximately
5000 miles, in October, 1924, around the rim of
the American continent, stopping only for refuel-
ing at San Antonio San Diego and Seattle.
The last memorable fight was that of the
Graf-Zeppelin named for the old count, which
last October flew 1000 miles off course in order
to avoid midatantc storm, arriving at Lake
hurst after 6000-mile journey with 60 hours fuel
reserve. The return fight to Frieorchshafen was
made in II hours