GIANT AIRSHIP.
MODIFICATIONS TO RlOl
LIFTING POWER INCREASED. (C-TIIBD PBESS ASSOCIATION—BY XLICTSIC TELXOSAFH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 20th, 5.0 p.m.) LONDON, December 27. The aeronautical correspondent of "The Times" says: Major modification in the airship RlOl involves cutting the vessel in halves, in order to insert an additional bay containing a gas-bag of half a million feet capacity. This is estimated to increase the ship's lift by at least six tons. Her length will then be eight hundred feet, easily the greatest yet built, and her tr>tal gas capacity will be five and a half million cubic fe'et. With other modifications the total increase of lifting capacity is calculated to reach fifteen tons. While it would be wrong to thus expect the RlOl to become a commercial proposition, itwill be equally wrong to assume that airships are generally not commercially practicable, because RlOl was designed on safetv lines as an experiment.— "The Times" Cable.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19814, 30 December 1929, Page 9
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152GIANT AIRSHIP. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19814, 30 December 1929, Page 9
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