Successful Airship Trials.
LONDON, July * Barton's airship made a successful flight from the Alexandra JPalace. Jt wns umWer ported control, There wore four persons aboard, mie ship turns in a 200 yards circle at a great height. After descending in Essex, the equilibrium was thoughtlessly upl set and the balloon' seriously damaged. (Dr. Barton hasi been sunce "190S engaged in the construction of his ship, which includes a targe balloon 170 ft long and 40ft in diameter, containing a little over 170,000 cubic foot of gas, andi having a lifting capacity calculated at 11,90011). Susjwndetf under the balloon is a bamboo frame, and between the balloon and the deck; are 30 aeroplanes. The propelling power is derived frojn two engiiitcs of 47, i.h.p. each, driving two sets of 6-bladod fans, running' at over 100 revolutions a minuto, and placed at the sides 6! the ship. The rudder is tin the form of a forge square sail 17ft toy 12ft. An acckient occurred! to Dr. Barton in 1904, which delayed the first trial o! the sWip.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7882, 26 July 1905, Page 2
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175Successful Airship Trials. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7882, 26 July 1905, Page 2
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