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Show b THE DE8KKET LAKE CITY SALT NEWS FRIDAY 20 1932 S- ' MIMcKMET UP SHIP SCALING HELD Commander Rosendabl. veteraq of many barrowing and exciting experience aboard Ibe fmet of tbe world' dirigible, and now captain of tbe Akron, tells another in hi senes of adventures with lighter than air flyingchapter craft. These B'1 ppear exe,uive,J fl,er" haTUE DESLRTb twA? - h J 4 McCLANAHAN'S GIGANTIC FEAT -- t MAY Experts Regard Success ARTICLE 7. copper and n little Of Expedition as What. then, are the principal re- weighs only about manganese, maining problem to be solved be- much as mild steel but has nearly' Phenomenal fore airships become reliable nav- the same tensile strength. al anits aa well a scheduled comIn tbe ship, the buoyant medium, mercial carriers? And if we solve must be kept In containBy ALEXANDER R. GEORGE these problems, what mag we ex- helium, ers that are aa gaslight aa possipect airships of the future to of- ble and of ns little weight aa conWASHINGTON The (aP) fer? What will they be like? with necessary strength and scaling of Slount McKinley. North No doubt you have noticed that sistent low permeability. The Los Angeles nowadays each new airship U for exampls has 14 such gss cell America's mightiest peak, la hailed larger than Its predecessors. There here as on of the crest mountain h as 12. Gas cells sre, otlMWimw Akron t talc reason for this. You may feats of all time. of A gtron cotton fab- -. baee noted also that the linen o: imad ric weighing about two ounces perl Explorers of the National the ships are changing: somewhat. h yard. They must he lined graphic Society ay the extra The photographs of the Shenana gaslight membrane that nai physical form and far north doah for example show that ship will stand make location Mount of McKinley humidity, cold, 'to have been of slender body, a handling andheat, wrinkling, and that it one of the most difficult of the e considerable portion of its hull can be easily and economically ap- earth's great pinnacles to scale. being straight rather than plied. Alaskas great "skyscraper" ta Heretofore, "goldbeater's curved. The Los Angeles, of later skins" have provided this lining. If times taller than tbe Empire and increased volume, is Each such skin U a portion of the State building and 3 times as high design actually shorter than the Shenan- large intestine of an ox. comes In as the Washington monument. doah but her diameter Is reaterony small sections and must be ap- -i Northernmost of ail the great In other words, the Angeles 1 pijcd ty hand a laborious, leog'hy peaks, it Is situated within four comparatively shorter and fatter. expensive procsSuJFor years, degrees of the Arctic girder And then going wii to our experimentation has been carried McKinley towers higher above ships, the ZRS-- 4 (Akron) and theton to find A substitute for these Its durrounding country than an ZRS-e see the idea carried xtUHjjtins. of all most other mountain In the world. promising yb "geUtin-iatexfarther. There is a term for this today is " mixture a Because of the snow and Ice It Is fineness ratio" and in num-;tiit niid n the cotton barriers, mountaineers, who once can ertcal Talus it is the maximum ' fabric in sheets by machinery. made an unsuccessful attempt on Anyth of th. ship divided by its PII1 later scaled. s ,r. Mount MVtr pf rSclj maximum diameter. 20.00 foot peak in the Andes, said another problem In The Akron has twice the aver- ship is Fabric outer rover continues that the latter climb required less age structural strength of the Los to remain in favor vith than reaching the 4.500 widely Angeles, and two and a half times airship designers and foot level at McKinley. that of tbe Shenandoah. As regards perienced Mount Everest, monarch of all contractors. A great deal has been ability to rlthstaad vertical w-- i summit is 29.141 r.ce(ly of metal coier.nr j mountains. whose rents and gusts, even considering1 for feet above sea level, has never airships. her increased maximum speed summer of 1917, with been scaled. Unsuccessful attempt! late In the which makes the loads correspond- funds supplied by the army and were made on Everest In 1922, ingly greater, the Akron is three navy, the United States Bureau of 1924 and 193. Two English extimes as strong as her predece- mines undertook the procurement piorers were last seen alive at an ssor. plant was set elevation of 2 300 feet. Mount The shorter biuntcr shape in it- of helium. The first soon .the project' Kajnet, also in the Himalayas, was self results In ft stronger ship. It op in Texas and A helium board ascended to the Summit last June Is much easier to break ft lead grew enormously. s of army and navy off!-b- y six members of a British pencil In two than H is to snap a composed was set up to manage the pro- - dition. This peak. 25.447 feet, t broom stick or a thick cylinder. We know of areas in the the highest ever scaled There Isa Ln aircraft structures, which are Ject. in Tibet called Ms Chin San of course compromises between United States where as high a 7 as Is cent content found which Is said to be higher than ium per weight and strength, the materials Nowhere else In tbe natural Everest but none except natives gases An are all important structure is a marvelous combina- known today in the world, is the has been closer to it than 75 mites amount of content sufficient Only once before has the hlgh-ttion of wire, light metal and fab- helium warrant Its extraction. Canadian est point, or South Feak, of Mount ric. The material from wbih pb to are about have said fields been reached. The suc- Is McKinley Is made only structure today airship d of one per cent helium, eessful climb was made by Hudson called duralumin. It Is an alloy helium most of valuable aluminum. some'The bearing Stuck. Episcopal Archdeacon of principally the Yukon and three companion ion June 7. 1913 In 1319 a party of four prospector to ch nbed the slightly lower North Peak one-thi- rd i - Geo-squa- ordi-wit- Hand-Selecte- d out-lin- Styles h .... WOMENS Tw and COATS' SUITS Illustrating the best selling 1932 Spring styles s. at & MISSES Three-Piec- e And Colorful Self-Trimm- Fur-Trimm- ed , 1 expe-oer- hel-;pe- o ioae-Lhlr- 4000 voooooo QgUaL&iU- L S ltegerd Trade Mark No 257444 SATURDAY SPECIALS Men, Look At Em Go! The Smartest. Greatest Array of Mens Straw Hats Ever Assembled to gases in the United 8tates known today are found lu Texas. Kansas. Utah and Colorado. It is known that we have in this country s practically inexhaustible supply of helium in the ground for at least several generations. Commercial interests also are producing helium at a price of about $35 per thousand cubic feet. Undoubtedly with, greater commercial demands, the cost can be reduced to one third of Hist price, or even less. Tbe problems of airship engines! are somewhat different from those of airplanes. The important fac-- i tors are reliability, safety, low fuel1 consumption, ruggedness and long life. Because of the small demand, no American airship engine of suit-able characteristics has yet been The Los Angeles uses developed. the German Maybach engine, aa1 does tbe Akron. This is very rcli- -' able economical 12 cylinder, Yee d type, engine of about 549 horsepower, its fuel consumption is about 45 !b. per horsepower hour. It will run equally well on liquid or gaseous fuels it has the unique feature of changing Hs own1 direction or rotation to reverse Its propeller to run In either the ahead or the atem direction It is started b 'nr-"?"air, each engine having its own compressor and air storage There is stiil room for improvement in airship instruments An outstand.ng need Is that of a practical altimeter, i e. a ready means of measuring exact altitude by other than the measure-- ' ment of atmospheric pressure Better method and equipment for con-- , ducting dead reckoning naviga-- , lion both tn clear weather and in low vitbJit conditions such as extended fog areas, are essential De-- i vices for assisting In fog landings are also needed though not to the same extent as for airplanes for the problems are not the same and airships can now mas fog landings, also, contrary to the case of the airplane, atrsh.p flight In fog and low visitMhty aod at night presents no additional problems nor need for additional instruments as the airship automatically maintains its altitude. 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