COMMERCIAL AIRSHIPS
"ROUND THE WORLD" TRIPS. (Rec. December 23, 10.30 p.m.) London, December 23. The twentieth commercial airship has been planned. It will be 1100 feet in length, with a range of twenty thousand .miles. It will be able to cruise for sixteen days without descending,, while its maximum speed will be ninety-five miles per hour, with a carrying capacity of two hundred tons, inclusive of passengers and goods. The airship will fly comfortably and in absoluto safety at an altitude of one thousand feet. Round the world trips are assured. Another airship is being built 700 feet long, with a range of nine thousand four hundred miles, a speed of sevenly-oiic miles, and a carrying capacity of fifty tons.—"The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 76, 24 December 1918, Page 5
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121COMMERCIAL AIRSHIPS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 76, 24 December 1918, Page 5
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