AERIAL DEVELOPMENT
A GERMAN WAR PRODUOT. MAKES FLIGHT OVER NEW YORK. NEW AMERICAN DESIGNS. (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received February 7, 5.5 p.m. WASHINGTON. February 6. General Mitchell told the Naval Air Committee that Germany during the war designed -m airship capable of flying around the world. He also claimed that the Germans passed over New York with it flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet, well beyond airplane attack. The engines were electrically heated and the crew supplied with oxygen. General Mitchell added that the United States was designing airships to fly at an enormous altitude.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14586, 8 February 1921, Page 5
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