NAVAL AIRSHIP.
SATISFACTORY TESTS. By Telccraph—Press Association—Oopyricht London, April 27. Initial tests of the Vickers naval airship proved satisfactory. Tho airship has twenty compartments filled with hydrogen, to prevent a single shot deflecting it. It ■ will carry twenty persons. Sir Hiram Maxim recently stated;that he had decided to join with Mr, C. Grahanio-White- and-M. Bleriot for the purpose of developing a new aeroplane to be used in the time of war. Tlity would, he said, make a machine that would reconnoitre the enemy's position, carrying no load at all except a navigator, and a larger machine, which would bo able to carry a 5001b. bomb, charged with high explosives, over a distance of forty miles, and return to the point of departure.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 5
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122NAVAL AIRSHIP. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 5
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