AN AUSTRALIAN AIRSHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 71, 23 March 1916, Page 8

AN AUSTRALIAN AIRSHIP.

a CLAIMED TO BE BETTER I\HAN THE ZHPIPEIJN. Tiie Austin 'balancing airship is an invention of Mr. G. B. H. Austin, district architect to the Victoria Public Works Department. Mr. Austin chums for his invention, which is purely Australian, that it will prove,superior to the Zeppelin in action, in that it will offer a imucii smaller mark. If the machine .should fulfil in actual practice the cxIpcctations of its inventor it will rank as an important instrument of warfare, i The great advantage of;thc Austin.airship, it is claimed, is that it is an automatic balancing machine, the planes be-1 i ing so contracted. that they act as" 'girders, and perform the -duties of- a.. parachute when making a -descent. - It i is asserted that the machine . will - lift 'greater weijrhts .than present designed aeroplanes, that'it carry greater : range guns, and that "having a splendid car, it provides a steady gun platform, ensuring accurate sighting. An air I brake in the planes provides • tor eafetv in landing. Equipped with an encased car, artificially heated, it can remain at. a greater altitude than present machines. It is stated that trials «were\ made. with a model *rfthe tnset__« «t MeJUm, and that iiiafAwheiury reaaJta astro detained. Carrying 38Mb, and equipped with a 12 horse power engine, the 'machine 6aw *at a hogfct of 2Sofh for various distances op ts s*mile without, the aid of a pilot, riain_<«_4the-atart at an angle«of 46 -degreeo. A clocks**!-, at-. tTfimrnf nnnrwrtrirl wiTh taW i h gnlated the rfaataTWnri to -tan' ummA. j__| in every-■! —ii *ls xnaraw^landed emlrij oa "all data that it in i nrlfhalamfing maijiaiii , It is claimed for the large raarhiwa, wflich, will *c mairaractnred <rf wateel and aluminium, that it" arill he equipped uritti tsso long-cange gune at each end of the platform. It is estimated that an engine of 1000 horse-power will he required ito drive the machine. . . '.'•:-' •- -The company is -hang 4 armed to -raise BMmcieahanooey -to-enaM*. a hvrgi aijud *niaiiiß«to*'felwitt,'wienifc,«^ Unsafadaad to \S- mm ' ■"■"TT .!>■• _. ■ . ' '