Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 3 | Germans have No Fear their Ship will Fail

GERulAIJS HAVE HD FEAR THEIR SHIPWILLFAIL -. Zeppelin Now Being Built for United State Is Not Largest Craft . Ever Attempted At-tempted ; la "Last Word" BERLIN. Aur- Faclne: the fact that memories of th R-JI and Roma disasters atlll ars freshly In mind throughout the world. Germany's builders of the naw trpelln Intended for commercial use In the United Plates are prepared to exhaust every resource at their command In pro-duclnr pro-duclnr the "lsst word" in aircraft. The Zeppelin company atanda ready aa "alalia lta reputation" on the ew prefect, according to an American r official who has figured prominently In the negotiations for the contract recently aigned here. This official pointed out. however, that the undertaking strikes no awe In the hearts of the constructors. alnca they already have built larger ahlps than that now under contract. In fact, he aaid. 'they are equipped to pessurs ai Bepnetln nf tUB.trw or ever 129.000 cubic meters, aa compared with the ship of 70,000 which they have agreed to build for America. PROFIT BY STUDY. TeJ the buildera recognize the possibility pos-sibility of elements hitherto uncontrollable uncon-trollable entering Into construction of this nature. It is said, and will endeavor en-deavor to profit by careful atudy of the fate which befell the two giant alrahlpa produced for the United States the paat two years In England and Italy. Particular attention will be devoted to the question of the . manifold strestea to which an airship la subject. Thla problem Involves multitudinous technicalities aa to design de-sign end the extreme teetlng of material. ma-terial. In theae departmenta. It la frit In American elrclea here, the Germans have reached an outstanding atege of advance. Reception of the ehlp having been delegated to the naval department of t'e I'nlted States. Its design will he submitted to that division of the rovTrnenforarMjoraInaddN tlon. an officer of the department will be present at Fried rlchhaf en aa an Inspector throughout the Zeppelin's construction. Thla duty has been aasigned to First Lieutenant Oarland Fulton. U. S. N- who la here In connection con-nection with the contract. First Lieutenant R. O. Pennoyer. U. 8. N, lao haa been In Berlin during the negotiations, both of these officers having been on duty In connection with the R-18. , FIFTEIN MONTHS TO BUILD. It la estimated that fifteen months will be required for construction of Ue chip. We apetlfli time of tie-" llvery hag been fixed, thla being dependent upon a number of contingencies, con-tingencies, not the leaat of which are the weather conditions. The Zeppelin probably will be completed by next fall, making It likely that delivery will follow during the ensuing en-suing summer. Lakehurst, X. J., haa been selected aa the place of delivery. The contract provides that the ehlp will fly to the United 8 lutes entirely under German reaponslbillty and manned by a German crew. It baa not been decided at this early atage of the project whether any American personnel will accompany the Germans Ger-mans on their trana-Atlantlo flight. The new Zeppelin will require a crew of about the same number aa that which manned the K-JS. In this connection It la pointed out here that a large part of the United States naval department's air personnel waa lost In the accident to the R-St. while the Roma disaster proved a similar loss to the army'e air forces. Thus Amer1cnijmajunafhsiswh will entail training, of an almost en-, tlrely new crew. No provision haa been made In the contract for the. United rltatea to ahare in the monetary loss ahould an accident occur to the ahtp before delivery. de-livery. Since the Zeppelin takea the place of coats due the United States In consequence of aerial loasea In the. war, It la noted, the fixed amount remalna due until eurh time aa the ship is actually turned over to the American government.