LOOKING AHEAD
AIRSHIPS IN WAR TIME
AMERICA'S NEW DIRIGIBLE.
(UNITIB FREES ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.} (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 10th October. At Lakehurst, New Jersey, Mr Denby, Secretary of the Navy, in christening the. dirigible ZRI, eaid •— . Any enemy of Iho United States that invites a trial of power with this country will have its hands full. We expect to equal, and surely hope to surpass all. others in military aviation. This vessel represents the latest and perhaps the most terrible weapon of offence, but I pray that it may never be used to attack an enemy or in defence of this
Keels are now being laid in Great Britain (says tho "Aeronautic Digest") for huge rigid airships which will hover above the clouds with- several fighting machines on board to launch at a foe Ihe task of these new machines in war wiU be to carry aloft to immense heights and to transport, if necessary, thousands of miles, squadrons of swift steelra", ** Planes.' 1 These will be launched from high above the clouds and will rush earthward to harry other aircraft and raid the commerce of the seas. Ihe airships will have the power lacking in a small machine, of long dig! f? fllS hts at Sreat altitude, while on the other hand, the small planes they carry will be able to outfly and outfight any machine laden for a lone iour ney. 6 J l
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 7
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236LOOKING AHEAD Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 7
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