HUGE ZEPPELINS.
FOR UNITED STATES NAVY. COSTLY CONSTRUCTION. (Australian Press Association). AKRON (Ohio), Oct. 28. The Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation has announced that it will build two huge Zeppelins for the United States Navy, costing approximately eight million dollars. They will be 780 feet long, and each will have a helium gas capacity of 6,500,000 cubic feet. A special hangar and a workshop, of great dimensions, are being constructed. In these the vessels will be built. The cost of tho hangar and the workshop will bo possibly three million dollars.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1928, Page 7
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