AERIAL NAVIGATION.
THE ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP. A SUCCESSFUL TRIAL. March 15, 9 a.m. , BERLIN, March 14. Count Zeppelin's airship in a trial attained an altitude of 1,720 metres (roughly, 5,680 feet). The airship which has made so successful a trial is Count Zeppelin's fifth and was built after the destruction of No. 4 last year, with the help of Government grant, anl not a national subscription. She is the largest airship yet constructed, greater even than her predecessor, which was 446 feet lung by 428 feet in diameter, and was propelled by engines of 220 h.p. The model is the same, the aerostat, which is built shipshape, being sustained in the air by sixteen separate small balloons enclosed side by side in a rigid aluminium framework, partitioned off by sheets of aluminium, to prevent any disaster should the hydrogen in the balloon take fire. Two motors work screws in either side of the airship. The balance is maintained by horizontal planes, and moveable planes of sheet aluminium serve as vertical and horizontal rudders. The horizontal rud-! ders enable the vessel to rise without discharging ballast and to descend without letting out hydrogen.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 16 March 1909, Page 5
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191AERIAL NAVIGATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 16 March 1909, Page 5
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