INVISIBLE AIRSHIP SHED.
SAFETY BY SINKING INTO THE GROUND. The German Navy, according to a statement published in Berlin, is shortly to possess a revolving disappeaiing airship shed on the island of Heligoland, the Gorman naval outpost in the North Sea. The airship shed will be built in a deep depression now used as a garden for tho officers of the garrison. The depression, which is 130 yards long, is to be lengthened to 200 yards. Except when an airship is entering or leaving it the shed will rest on the bottom of the hollow, its roof filling in the space between the sides, so that it will scarcely be visiblo to hostile airmen and will be entirely unrecognisable by warships. Tho shed will be raised after the manner of a gasometer. It will be constructed so that, it will revolve in order that an airship may enter with the wind blowing in any direction. Heligoland is barely 350 miles from tho mouth of the Thames—about n seven hours' flight in . fine weather for the Gorman naval Zeppelin airship.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 12
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179INVISIBLE AIRSHIP SHED. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 12
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