Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-08 | Page 2 | Airship Plans Are Revealed by E. P. Warner

u f AIRSHIP PlANS 1 ARE BY L P P. W WARNER Landing Fields Near City Urged by N Navy vy Chief f fin i in Salt Lake r iT l I Airships will be built that win will carry arry rry pas passengers engers acro across s ocean l in third one the time now required required- by steamships and at a rate of oC fare as lo low as as the best passage on on steamers Edward Edwrd P. P Warner Varner n 35 afe- afe nt of ot the navy f for foi r aeronautics s said ld Thursday night v He was at the Union Pacific station fifteen minutes minutes' en route east after arter an all Inspection of f Pacific coast air air- ports port t v The navy Is now nov preparing to an airship that will be twice as large I as as' as any any we now have and 20 per jer cent larger than the new J British ship which has caused such Stich a 3 flurry Mr lIr Warner asserted It It t tl l will be long by beam and w ill have a gas capacity of c cubic feet On n May 15 the designs are to be r received from engineers erst who ho have been invited to submit plans and these will be judged or on construction features The ship ship ship-is I is isto ito to be built by contract COULD CARRY Such a ship as this would b be capable of carrying passengers from rom Los Angeles to Honolulu In from thirty six Ix to forty hours and the Hie voyage would be more pleasant than in a steamer because an aIrship does not pitch and plunge as does a boat In stormy weather The airship is is' the practical craft of rapid overseas travel for forIt forIt It has a much greater cruising radius and Is safer than an airplane The TIle plane will be the development for fast overland tra travel vel So far no no attempt h has s b been en made in in thI this j country to develop the airship for commercial purposes but the navy Is taking the l lead ad in this wor worl and commercial development will tol fol- fol I low I FIELDS IMPORTANT It la Js Im Important that cities obtain arid and improve landing fields close lose t to their business centers so so that they t e may profit by tIle the development o of ot commercial aviation For a anum num ber tf Of years tears most people thought that the construction of an air field was a concession to special Interests and OI of o transitory r Importance but now now this point of view seems to be be- d dying ing out New News New Yorks York's landing tel field t fa lv twenty nty 1111 jJ cen center ter pf If the city and arid the city is is' isnow now making a a- a l strenuous effort to get one closer in Cities sh should uld also prepare to erect mooring masts for airships when they b become come a commercial commercial com corn mercial factor for they are coming as sure as summer r Mr Warner was welcomed in Salt Lake by Commander H. H J. J Abbott in charge of oC the he navy navy recruiting of office oC- oC fice lice Colonel W. W B. B McCaskey com commander toni toni- mander at Fort Douglas and Wayne Vayna Wilcox Wilcot and C. C C. C Backes of the tee of the chamber of commerce He was as accompanied by Bruce G. G Leighton his aide alde