MILITARY AIRSHIPS.
GERMAN STATIONS ON THE FRENCH FRONTIER. CY TEI/EGttAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPrBIQBI. Eerlin, November 3. Mote and Strasburg, the two frontier fortresses that wore taken from Franco in tlio Franco-German war, will oach bo made an airship station. |
The. followinß passages occurs in a book written bv the Rogioriuißsrat Afartin, a German oliicial:—"The present aluminium airship of Count Zeppelin, with a gas capacity of 11,000 cubic metros, can carry altogether SO persons. If the. diameter were increased from 12 to U metres, tho length remaining as now 128 metres, instead of SO, it would he able to carry 70 An aluminium airship of thin kind costs .£25,000. With «00 motor-airships of this kind 250.000 men could bo transported throiHi thi! air from Norderney to England in one night. The distance from Norderney to lOngland is 100 kilometres, and would b? traversed in oight hours. If the crossing were made from the French eocnt, from Havre, Calais, tloiilojjno, and Dieppe, the. distance would bo between 31 and 50 kilometres, nnd thn time occupied an hour. Tho saino motorairships could therefore in one night transport four times as many troops. Artillery wnuld be superlluous, as the war airships would hurl down torpedoes from above during tho battle."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 November 1907, Page 5
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