CUT AIRSHIP IN HALVES
NECESSARY IN ALTERATION OF RlOl GREATER LIFTING POWER Reed. 1.45 p.m. LONDON, Friday. The aeronautical correspondent of “The Times” says major modification of the airship RlOl involves cutting the vessel in halves in order to insert an additional bay containing a gasbag of 500,000 feet capacity. This is estimated to increase the ship’s lift by at least six tons. The length will be 800 feet, making her easily the greatest airship yet built. The total gas capacity will be 5,500,000 feet. Other modifications, the total increase in lifting capacity, is calculated to reach 15 tons.
While it would be wrong to expect the RlOl thus to become a commercial proposition, it would be equally wrong to assume that airships generally are not commercially practicable, because the RlOl was designed ou safety lines as an experiment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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