NAVAL AIR FLEET

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 12

NAVAL AIR FLEET

BRITISH ORDERS PLACED ABROAD Energetic measures are being taken in England to build up powerful aerial fleets for the Army and the Navy. In the House of Commons recently Mr. Churchill confirmed the report that the Admiralty had ordered a dirigible for the Navy irom Germany. The Adflurajty l^.also buying other aircraft, f f* h V'MM letnps reports that the Astra Company had received an order from the British Naval authorities for marine aeroplanes of 100 horse-power. On behalf of the Army, Colonel Seely also stated in the Commons that steady progress had been made to jiut on all efficient basis the several squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps. They were cer- <)™ y not "paper squadron's," he added. Ihe Berlin correspondent of the LondOn Chronicle telegraphed further particulars regarding the Parseval dirigible ordered 'by the Admiralty. It will be 1 f eady early this year, and & commission of Bytish officers will be present at the trial trips. The dirigible' will be 300 ft „ in length, and fitted with two motors esele s ell < 9 f ioO horse-power, giving a speed of 41 miles an hour. It will be constructed to remain from twenty to twenty-five hdura aloft, and on emergency' to attain an Altitude of over 6000 ft. Ihe ear will havg ari accommodation for fifteen to twenty persons. Complete secrecy is maintained with regard to the arming of the dirigible. Ihe Berliner Tageblatt, which publishes these details, states that a similar airShip has been ordered by the Russian Government.