Show Pla Plans Under in England Dispel DisDel Jh t Lighter Than Than- Air MachiS f Q ed a Failure Durina War 4 By LLOYD ALLEN Special Staff Correspondent J Copyright 1919 by We Western teru Newspaper UnIon 4 ONDON Passenger airships bigger I il than nI the largest largest Zeppelin arc Zeppelin are being II constructed in one of England England's war Irr factories es They will have a cruising r range of miles mUes They will be able to take passengers from London to San Francisco co with ease the designers be- be Hee Crossing the Atlantic ocean and landh landing g passengers ers In New York mlles miles away will willbe be childs play pIny for these Goliaths of the air n accordIng accord accord- ord- ord Ing to officers in the British air ministry who Ire are familiar with th t the plans of ot t the monster Because of the war time censorship the general gen eral public n never er obtained any very definite In Information In- In formation about the lI h than er ei machines x Mi r I. I 1 Jt ll i s1 I M 1 t W m 1 C TEP T OF T l J buIlt for the allies aUles The The Impression got about about- t that at lighter r th than n air ships were failures because the Zeppelins failed in their raids There is no noI doubt on this subject in the British air ministry I that the era of th There it Is known Imo positively dirigible Is Just beginning An lt immense amount of submarine anti patrol patrol- Ing and c s orting was done one by dirigibles during the the- thelast lost last year of the war A chain of ot r airship stations was as' as maintained ined ri right ht around the coast of England from Mullion In Cornwall around Scotland to A A. A large number out of action ac action of 01 hostile submarines were either put bombing Other tion or actually destroyed ed by subs were located by hy the air men and the Information In In- formation passed along to to t the e destroyers that knew well enough how to handle handl l the under sea U murderers murd 1 It was In convoy convoy escorting that that showed ved their special advantages over oyer j i airplanes The airship with Its I ts big bag of ot gas g fo to keep It upi could go v very ry slowly keeping an an even ven pace with the transports below loaded wl Wi i American sol diers dlE It could Sta stay at any given height while Its lookouts searched the sea tor and subs Can Cross Atlantic In Fifty Hours Hauls During the war one British airship made a cruise lasting 50 hours and 55 minutes tho armistice this record has b been en beaten by a 1 trip of 61 hours With such reliable data as' as this to work on the air experts figure that crossing crossin the Atlantic is going to be a fairly fairl easy Job since ther are In existence today dirigibles s that have hn a speed of f more than 80 miles an tIn hour which would mean something like 40 or 50 hours continuous con flying to reach New York At present the British builders are specializing on two big than lIghter types The first about the s same me size as the largest Zeppelin while the second type the one that will have a mlle cruising range Is four times as large as as the largest Zeppelin ever built Imagine an airship with a gas bag 1100 1100 f feet et long longer lon er than the and higher than t the e Woolworth building were the the dirigible set seton on end Inside this bag cubic feet teet of gas will be e carried capable of lifting tons tons' s of freight and passengers in addition to th weight Ight of tho op operating machinery Plans Plans' f for the craft make provision for saloons drawing rooms smoking rooms and a roof garden n which may be reached by an elevator The estimated es es- sp speed ed Is 05 miles an hour 1 J When the German Zeppelin L 70 was was' J It ivas Im 4 pr predicted i ted that she would be the h oT 01 her kind yet lt the new British Goliath air hns quadrupled d the capacity of the ale Ger German production AS As' compared t to the ten tn million ship the theother theother other British t type pe Is somewhat of or an infant since she can car carry but 1 ut 50 tons of luggage and pas pas- and travel only odd miles mUes without descending for a fresh supply of gaso gac gasoline line and oil oUt r Best Tor lor Long Distance Flights Flights With In aerial V travel 1 virtually lu r realized It Is conceded here that at the the dirigible must take first place as asa a n long an e passenger pas carrier r. Heavier than air machines will willbe be e built In considerable numbers will and come ome I Into a very J large nt use but In all will be utilized mainly for flights tl that t. t aggregate of of mlles mlles' rather miles rather than into the i thousands thousand The airplanes airplane's special advantages will willbe 1 be e m made e use se of where certain routes are to hI OJ Jh TH P JET H FO u I V XO THAT TH THATter OUR HC ter than the British the value alue of of airships as scout craft It Is no longer a secret ecret that the at Jut Jutland Germans owed their escape land to Zeppelins while earlier I Ithe In Inthe the war it was the scout work of ot Zeppelins that gave the German fleet fl et the all clear signal for the bom bombardment bomi of Scarborough an act of singular cruelty the Huns were able to accomplish without injury Zeppelins also acted in a n similar capacity In the torpedoing of th the H. H M. M S. S Falmouth and Notting ham When war broke out in 1914 the British had only seven s ven aIrships aIrships' In commission One hundred were were at work off and on by October r 3 31 of 1918 while in the various factories fac fac- tories many more were in course course of construction Would Destroy War Menace r Back of all aU the interest in peace time flying is the lurking tear fear that the Ger Germans mans will endeavor I Ger-I to keen abreast of the r re- re z B T lJ v LE v CO T hERCHA PJ U- U O iT covered ered at unusually li high gh speeds That an air airplane ali plane will soon be fl flown wn at more than miles mUes an hour is deemed a d modest kind of prediction Some enthusiasts proclaim the possibility of f a he heavier than a air r machine that will do mlles miles ri an 1 hour I So for the short hort trip we may expect to see ce airplanes like Ilke the large Jarge allied bombing planes s come I Into to general use and for long distance tr travel vel men and women will ride in the gre greater Comfort that can an be provided In giant dirigibles For tourist t travel the dirigible It is pr predicted here will always be the popular craft principally because it it can fly at a low rate of speed and amI permit Its to look at things In an airplane for instance insh nce the splendor of the Day Bay of Naples is iR lost s so fast must the airplane move while In an airship that beautiful scene can be enjoyed at leI leisure ure at cruising From an airplane going ordinary speed say fay eighty miles l es an hour the surface of th the earth looks like a dull contour map with large objects ts only dimly discernible because the airplane must keep at least 1000 feet above the earth On the other hand a dirigible can get et along very nicely at an altitude of feet and drift along with engines almost or completely topped stopped The airship p has another distinct advantage It If does not bank in turning as an airplane does Sleeping In an airship Is a n calm experience moving ing hig higa a about out comparatively simple And an airship flight does does' not produce the shrill whistles whIstles' and amI screeches eternally among the wires Traveling In an airship need be no more noisy than In a motorcar rl tOr arid and with a favorable wind blowing airships airship's engines can enn be throttled down to a aJ J or actually stopped Engine Stop Not Dangerous Dang rous What will mo i t to to the lands landsman man who travels In the air for tor the first time will w be the th fact that the fh airship can can remain In In the air Indefinitely and the passengers are in no grave danger g should the engines fall faIt The gas gasbag i bag js JS' so ample that the machine will not fall when hen the engine stops whereat vh r s a-s In the air plane an ari engine stop Is iR a lire life and Math death matter Dirigible b building here In En England had a n great bo boom r during th the war days days amr now that the signing lit f a n p hb H nty is near r at nt hand th the work ork 1 has no not been aU allowed e to tR I stop oD Instead t the the war machines are going to tobe tobe be ma made e largely l lInto into croft craft designed for peaceable peace peace- n able le missions l s. s The he navy will always nl n R need n certain number r of dirigibles to act as scouts couts No one knows bet bet- of the great pow powders ers in the matter of building build ing aerial passenger and freight carriers presumably bly for tor purely commer commercial lal purposes It Is pointed out In ce tain sections of the British Brit British ish press that the Ger Ge Germans mans might take advantage tage of their commercial l craft Jl at some ome future date and md again break faith the world Mobilization of a hostile air fl fleet et could be accomplished p shed within a few with the ter terrible ter hO hours ll's and nd ri le gas and high explosive sive bombs developed during dur duro ing In the thi war wat an an opponent t nation c could u I wiit with the the element of surprise acting I out of action or or be put In orlof fa the Invader of time seriously crippled d in a n very very brief space seriously mode made that one of ot Su Suggestion has been the c conditions of the pe peace e. e should be the appointment appointment ap ap- international commission vested of an nn all al alGerman German factories factories fac fac- with power to tt r i tories so that the the output output- of anything lethal could be strictly regulated Whatever regulation of the air comes from the peace conference and It can be predicted with safety that some very serious consideration of the air will be a feature of the historic meetIng meet meet- Ing It If is very clearly understood on this side I of ot th the water that supremacy of th the air will will 1 be bea a a deciding factor in any future war |