A wot king model o/ lighter-than-air craft which flying authorities in America believe may revolutionise air transportation. Ihe new machine will be entirely rigid and entirely metal, clad with dural, an \ aluminium alloy. Through the hull will run a hollow metal cylinder, an the Venturi tube principle, to re uce air resistance and increase propulsion activity _in the manner of a rocket. The new ship is designed, to. ascend and descend vertically in a restricted area, The first ship, the George I is expected to be completed about the-gn([ of jicxt year,,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 117, 20 May 1938, Page 7
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92A wot king model o/ lighter-than-air craft which flying authorities in America believe may revolutionise air transportation. Ihe new machine will be entirely rigid and entirely metal, clad with dural, an \ aluminium alloy. Through the hull will run a hollow metal cylinder, an the Venturi tube principle, to re uce air resistance and increase propulsion activity _in the manner of a rocket. The new ship is designed, to. ascend and descend vertically in a restricted area, The first ship, the George I is expected to be completed about the-gn([ of jicxt year,, Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 117, 20 May 1938, Page 7
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