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Show j n if I Air Roilfe Future Airship-Will 1 Carry Freight kjOr an(l Passengers v U , Iy CAPT. THOMAS NALDWIN. B Wlio Has Sold Airship tu Government. I The great future of tlio airship lies in transpor-y transpor-y j tntion botli for passengers and niercliuntlise. I'so I I wnr wu' '1MVl'' j,lsl 113 "K" telegraph nnd the ruil- I flBBBBPI I road have had, but the great development of the nir- HflVHflfl ship will ho for coiutnereial purposes and to utilize Bt-Sjiio-B '10 0,10 rLC n'gnwny f the earth. The nir is free for f$I 113 "11, and it's going t he conquered, just as surely ' I ti r I 113 wo con(luercu' v,''th the boat and the railway. ' L JwA 1 How long? 1 cannot tell. Xo one can. Ccrtain- Kr" 'i' within the next score of years, but, then, it may Nj ASIffl come in a night. Hut this I do know when the scien- mln8xllll l'9ts 001110 to irruut'hlc fads and figures in aerial QhHKHl navigation and can lay down a set of rules and laws K Blllljufflllu H iUu n forruulii for the guidance of us practical men, then will come perfection in a jump. There are very f,w who have taken up the subject methodically and scientifically; in fact, practically none but experimenters like myself plain, practical experimenters, willing to take a chance and iind out the best we may how the thing is to be done. But it takes years aind lives to learn and get the experience. We can only hope that science will join hands with practicability and gain perfection in aviation. The airship of the future will be of the Von Zeppelin type. I have i studied out that phase of the question to my own satisfaction, nnd I have come to the conclusion that such will be the type. But it will have mora planes more than on my dirigible in fact, be a combination of the diri-i'ible diri-i'ible and the aeroplane, but larger. The airship of the future, as 1 see it, will be of immense size, have great speed and will be as easily controlled ns this hundred footer of mine. |