GAS-ENVELOPE DANGERS.
FRENCH TRAGEDY. MERITS OF COMPARTMENT SYSTEM ■ ' RECOGNISED. 1 ' (I)y Telccrapli,—l'resj A»!oHallnn.-Co(irrlfil|l I ■ .' . ' • [ I ~Paris,' September'2>./ ,J Tho fatal fall of :tho-French* military airship ' La Roptibhquo, tho - gas-envelope 'of whioh- exploded when it wiis ripped by tho bla'do nf a broken propeller, has caused. French' aeronauts to rocogniso for tho first tirao that there is | some,merit in Count Zeppelin's multiple igashag' system. ■ r - ■ .-■ . i ' They declaro, that -wooden propellers are likely to ebme into increased favour as'giving warning of fracture, and slower' sne'eds will be recommended. ' .V' ~•; [Tho Itopubliquo ■ was- travelling at 25 miles ail hour when tho propeller 'broko■ and rititoed 1 .tho. gas-onvelope. -Had- it been - the-Zeppeli n— with her sixteen separate ballonots, each selfcontaihed, compnsod in her great .<■ aluminium onyelope—tho leak caused would probably have been confined to ono ballonot or perhaps - two.]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 7
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137GAS-ENVELOPE DANGERS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 7
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