AIRSHIP v. AEROPLANE.
“If there is one fact more established than any other, it is that things: never do ‘go well’ with airships; and that the time has come to call a! halt to the waste of the national resources on this thrice-exploded monstrosity,” writes Mr A. G. Gardiner " in the I “Stair” (Lfondbn). “In the eontrovosy between the aeroplane and the, airship the victory has gone finally and decisively to the aeroplane,” adds Mr Gardiner in his contribution to tliq “In war the airship was proved to be the clumiest, most futile and most vulnerable'weapon ever fashioned l>v man. Of the sixty-one Zeppelins launched by the Germans 17 were destroyed by the enemy, 28 were lost by accident, 6 were put out of service as useless. The post-war experience has been no less devastating. We have spent tens of millions of money >in experimenting with this gigantic imposture, always with the same result.-/(The ships have always come to- an inglorious end, most of them after less than one hundred hours in the air.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1930, Page 7
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174AIRSHIP v. AEROPLANE. Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1930, Page 7
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