| Show A NEW AIR SHIP no present subject of industrial and scientific discussion excites more eat in time the public mind or possesses more therba for the investigator than be navigation of the upper deep iri in other the construction of 0 practical ships or other contrivances for rs log ing above the earths surface and traversing the air the maxim airship air ship ban baa been perhaps more prominently brought to attention than any other and by reason of the fame of its inventor BB as well as ai the apparent correct neu nese of the principles uton which ibis falb ideas are based his project has bag boon been regarded fegard ed with much lew ON incredulity than Is ii commonly associated with flynne fly lne machines 1 in the mind of the uninitiated A new candidate candida tp how bow ever for public favor in this line hue has bado ita appearances appearance the Zep zeppelin velin air abias which blab seems deems to possess construe constructive merits above buy any other design yet presented the st paul pioneer press describes dege it as bavido a shaped bady which con can be propelled so it is almed Ot upward and downward forward or of backwards backward to right or left and which is in capable of being safely used in 18 any atmospheric conditions liable to occur within three and a half bait miles above the surface of the earth it is so buoyant that it can be taken up feet with but little trouble not no more than pounds in weight oo can 00 be carried by snob each vessel as ae a lead great economy bo however wever bas baa boom been exercised in the arrangement ran gement for gaa and it la Is calculated that the ship way may remain in the air for nearly a week at a times time without its it being necessary necee eary to retura to the surface eurlace for gas gae the power is ia furnished fur dished by a kerosene motor made ot of alual GUM or an alloy of that metal and so eo nicety Is the motive tive power calculated othas tafe to very little waste in pro the fact that abat a certain amount of buoyant gas in lae stored within the be framework of the machine constitutes utes a drawback in so BO far as it increases the dependence of the conductor of the abe abi febia p on terrestrial supplier lieF it if an am air ship should be constructed which was sufficiently practical and service serviceable atile to justify the establishment of a transit aye ya tom tern with supply stations at intervale interval the use of hydrogen gas would not be a great but for a loop long erbeis of experiments it must necessarily be so toe popular idea of an air ship is a machine in which long voyages way may be made in now new regions region and it should be tolerably independent of any accessories excepting such mechanical ones as aa might be supplied eup plied at any stae in a voyage without resort to the starting point or to a special specia I 1 lepot depot of supplies aup plies nevertheless the Z ipp eliD it if all that la Is claimed for it is true is we first successful self belf propel ling aerial machine completed the mechanical device once successfully tested it is not too much to hope that it will be possible to eliminate the balloon feature of its construction the close of the century ought to witness some successful fo lution of the problem of serial aerial navigation which to is no longer regarded as an chimerical but rather as an imminent probability |
