DIRIGIBLE BALLOONING.
4t A ZEPPELIN TRIP, (ni TXi.EGiuiMi—ritEsji tssnciA-rifiK—copvmaiiT.) London, March 22. Count Zeppelin's airship, carrying twentyfive passengers, in a four hours' flight, covored 150 miles. [Count Zeppelin, with his "rigid construction" type of airship, holds the distance record for dirigible balloons, 280 miles in 12 hours in August of 1808. Major Gross, another German, in his military "semi-rigid" airship, holds the record for time aloft, as on September 1° 1008 ho covered 188 miles in 13 hours two minutes ]
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 464, 24 March 1909, Page 7
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80DIRIGIBLE BALLOONING. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 464, 24 March 1909, Page 7
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