WAR OFFICE ORDER FOR LATEST INVENTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7317, 10 June 1902, Page 5

WAR OFFICE ORDER FOR LATEST INVENTION.

l)i-, Barton, of lieckenhani, who for the past, twenty years h.is been experimenting witli airslnps, leeent.ly lectured htfoic the Aeronautic Sot.-ii.ty at. St. Bride's Institute, London, on liis lausc piodtic-tion. So fur his new (Usign lias only readied tile stag-o (if a l ar; , e moj,,!, ) jUt , ;,- s , )ecu li; U . advantages have- so commended it, to the notice of aeronauts and others that the War Oilicu lias already ordered from him an airship capable of can-vine iive to seven men. Tiiu peculiar feature of the Barton airs up is thu coinbinat ion of tin- balloon and the aeroplane, a combiiintitm of which the Uociin- is Hie lii-it. expoiuni. The lialldon in made of Japanese silk, and is of ci K ur-slmp : -. with three cninparl-nu-iiis. rlivideil by llexil.lc wails, thus allowing for 1-xp.msiou iij.,l eonl rail ion of Ka-1--. In lilt iviilit- of the., middle eom|»aitmeni is a ballouiieUe. hno which nir is intended to be piiijip.-d. to eoiMpcnsiile for any ltakajjo of from l.lie ti.mpannvnl.--. an.l thus kevp the whole ballonn i-ii(id. Xho ear. a lou^ steri tubular structure susnonde.l by iit!.< cords. e.inies three 45----horse power motors, each working two >-pts of triple. two-ph..ted fans, two sets above the ear and one undenicath. These it is estimated, will enable the nil-ship to travel at a rate of at least twenty miles an hour. The great features of the ship are three sots of triple- aeropanes, which, situated between tho balloon and the car, control the mini: and falling of the ship, each of tlie.se operations beinsj effected without (he expenditure of ,„• balln.-t. Iho steering j s e fFoe:tffl by means of a iniht. rudder at the stem of f!ie ship workrd by a small wheel in the enr. To maintain the car in a horizontal posiif.n an nurenious devicv has been adopted two tanks, one at either end. !u-.in"u tilled, each with 401b of water, which by an automatic arrangement runs from biie end to the other, counterbalancing any movement on the car. Tim new airship, which is to be built for the tt ar Oflice. will ], c nearly 200 ft lone io oooib av° * total wc"'Ri;t' of noarly