Airship Travelling.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 December 1914, Page 4

Airship Travelling.

Captain C M. Waterlow, of the Royal Flying" (-orPs' states that a new material has recently been discovered for manufacturing the gas envelopes of airships. It practically eliminates the leakage at gas. rhe secret of its manufacture cannot be discovered by examination or analysis This material, says our authority will make the airship a feasible commercial proposition as a pas-senger-carrying- vehicle. He prophesies that airships running regularly between London = and. Pans will.carry fifty passengers, and do sixty miles an hour with ease, and comfort. As passengers pass through the turnstiles to the airship, we arttold, their weight will be recorded. Those over 13 stone would have to pay excess. Consequently gentlemen near the limit would discard coats and wraps, and give them to their lighter friends. All England would be furnished with lighthouses—the white upper light would be the county one, and the lower red light would indicate the sub-district. Thus it would take very little to ascertain the position of the airship in the dark. On the way to the coast the wireless operator would receive instructions as to the picking up of local mails. Letters would be dropped to earth by a small parachute. Dinner would be served as the Channel was crossed.