THE COMING AIRSHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 272, 15 November 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE COMING AIRSHIP.

A; journal devoted to aeronauty becomes prophetic, and thus describes the airship of the future: — "The successful aerial machine will be vastly more stable than a bicycle, ,and man will much more readily learn to rely on it for support and safe transit, for the reason that his centre of gravity will be placed below the centre of support, where he can more easily, conveniently, and safely rock his supporting aeroplane surface than he could maintain his balance on abie3 rcle or rock a canoe on the water. The most practical and efficient aerial machine will be one instinctively controlled by its intelligent ballast, the aeronaut, who will be located low down, and near the centre axis of the system, so that by instinct or design he can move to alter the set of his aeropLane surfaces, and so vary their resistance. The movements will be made as quickly and unconsciously as a person when walking trips and recovers his balance, or places one foot before the other. On these lines, strange as it may appear, aerial shipbuilders will design and construct, and aeronauts will launch and navigate, aerial craft of one-man capacity up to and even greater tonnage, or cargocarrying capacity, than the largest vessels now traversing" the seas."