AIRSHIPS FOR TRADE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 9

AIRSHIPS FOR TRADE

AN EXPERT REPORT. A 'memqrnndum prepared by the British Air Ministry institutes a -comparison between the advantages of airships and aeroplanes i'or commercial purposes, and in appendices discusses lita relative development and potentialities of rigid airships and aeroplanes and some of tho commercial considerations relating to airships. The opinion is expressed that the future uses of aeroplanes and airships for commercial purposes will' not conflict. Tho airship is essentially a long-distance, weight-carrying craft in comparison with the short-distance, high-speed. aeroplane; yet. the airship to-day, with a speed of 77.6 miles an hour, can be considered slow only in comparison with the aeroplane, arid is unquestionably fast in comparison with existing methods of land and sea transport. SJio has, further, tho advantage of not being dependent on her 6peed through the air for her ability to ! remain aloft, and is, therefore, not liable, I like the aeroplane, to forced descent in case of engine failure. In fact, quite large repairs, such as the changing of a cylinder, are possible in tho air. The airship is thus worthy of consideration for commercial Slights over sea or ovou land of a .wooded or broken nature, such as would to unsuitable for the landing of aeroplanes, and on journeys involving non-stop flights of 10C0 miles and upwards. In addition, sho is tho ltiost suitable typo'of aircraft for the carriage of passengers, where safety, comfort, and' reliability aro essential. Sho can always remain on an even keel, and there is therefore no danger in flying at night or in fog and clouds. The great lift permits of much more comfortable accommodation being provided than in an aeroplane, and thcro is room to move about, it being possible, for example, in'tho case of a rigid, airship, to take <0. walk of .fooft. or 500 ft. along the keel. Tho fact that tho onvelope is filled with an inflammablo gas need not cause any misgivings as to safety, when it is-remem-bered that during tho war large numbers of motor vehicles have been iised carrying bags* filled with equally inflammable coal-gas at no groater distance from tho engine than in tho case of an airship. Official statistics show that only ,0110 airship has been lost in this country owing to catching fire m the air, although 83,360 hours wero flown and over 2} million miles covered during the war. In that case the flight was an experimental one with a now typo of airship, and the cause has 6ince been ascertained and eliminated. , It appears that for commercial purposes large rigid nil-ship stations should be established at distances of 2000 to 3000 miles apart, mainly for trans-oceanic trnffie, tho aeroplane being used fov bringing passengers and merchandise _to these from the neighbouring countries. A Continental airship service, for example, might run from Lisbon to New York, passengers being* taken to Lisbon from Paris. Borne, and other places by aeroplane.' In this way the aeronlnno would compete with tho train, and the airship with the steamship, over which she would have the advantage of reducins the average tirao of transit by, at least 50 per cent. In addition, airships would be used for linking up tho railways 'in such places tt3 ..^ sn tr a L^ f ,' where tho country is difficult foi both aeroplanes and land transport. . Though airships nro generally considered fair-weather craft, up to the end of November there wero last year only mno days on which no nirslnp mght took nlnce in tho "British' Isles, which, are notorious as possessing almost the worst weather-conditions of any country in the world. In lons voyaws advantage could be taken of favourable winds, and the routes nhosen accordingly, while, own ~ to her long endurance, an airship coma afford to flv over or round a depression should one '|Jie encountered. Sir Douslas Maclean, It.P.. who is likely to be the Parliamentary lender of the Free Liberal Members-, began public lite as a "blue ribbon" boy at Cardiff. It hns been the practice of the Band of Hope Union of that (own for. over thirty venrs to hold n public blue ribbon meeting every Saturday night, arid it was at these meetings that young Donald Maclenn acquired the art of nublic spending. 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