Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-28 | Page 7 | U. S. will Buy British Airship

and was lost iHst spring on the eve of an attempt to cross the Atlantic." " The R-38 is 694 feel long. S6 feet in diameter, 9:! feet fi inches high and carries car-ries a useful load of 4,i tons. She is expected ex-pected to have a maximum speed of 60 ! knots. 0. S. BILL BUY BRITISH AIRSHIP Contract for Purchase of R-38 by Navy to Be Closed Soon. WASHINGTON. Oct. 2T. An early closing of Hie contract for tlie purchase by the navy of tlie British riRtd airship R-CV cie ;ar st airship in the world, now under coiwtnivlion in Kms'.and. is expected, it was stale at the department tod-vv. Two anil one-half million dollars were appropriated by congress lor tlie purchase of this airship and for the train-Inn train-Inn Of pilots. 'Tiie ?;iccess."' said the statement, "o. the lirinsh in huiidinE and operating rc-id airships is proved hy Hie trip of the R-H4 to the UniH'd Slates and its re-lurn re-lurn to KHBlaml. Whi!c tiio Germans nad ,.,nv vcars' star; of the British. I lie latter lat-ter have made wonderful progress m tue last fc ears. ' "j-rr k-i'.s to outward appearances will look like the R-.14. but ber dimensions, hc-senower. speed and radius of action w-il be much greater. She wnl have a 7-M'ici cubic foot .araoitv. which is fit-teen fit-teen ' times that of the '-5. t ie I m:.i States naai dirigible that blew to sa