Flying Cruisers.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10630, 2 February 1909, Page 1

Flying Cruisers.

AERIAIi SCOOTS TO BE BUILT FOB. 'GERMANS.

The iGermam Ministry of Mairiae; has decided to order four airship! cruisers. from the Zeppelin lAir&hip Construction Company at- Friedrich,shaveii'.

i Naval expejttg" who reoominendedl this innovation, propose that the cniisers shall foe 1 ■u/sedi for scouting rather than, for destruabftre operations. 'Each of the four 1 aerial warships will hare a capacity of from 12,000 ft> 141,000 cubic metres, 8? ; their size will be approxianitely equal to that of. the latest Zepeplin.' vessels. i These are to 'be built wider Count Zeppelin's .personal' supervision!, with all the latest imprOTennents of tha Zeppelin, system 1 embodied in them, aaidthey will aoet \£SO,OQO each. It ia proposed to station two at' 'WliJßelmshaven, and'two at Kiel.

Simultanleiously with 1 tifie conetruction of the aerial oniiaefs the supreme naval authorities propose to oonsfcrtilot a new' type 1 of floaifingc 3ocks, whj'cih, when, covered; with a roof, will ibecome floaitanig _, balloon aheds. HifEerto the MKnisbry of Martinis nag abstaitwd, fttom the purchase of airshiii«,: all adrial vessels belojnging to tho .Government having been aoquired by. thfe Waif OfficW.

The decision of the naval authorities that four aerial cruisers a,re necessary is an, 1 additional proof .ihafc German experts are very much in earnest in_ aittributiaig extensive possibilities to the "use of airships in) wai'tiuie.