Show AIRSHIP DEVELOPMENT Count Zeppelins Zeppelin's experience In his attempt to make mako an airship excursion from Munich to and back was not of ot a I. I kind to encourage the the Impression that aerial navigation Is at length being put upon a practical practical cal basis The trip was vas not a a. successful success ful fut one In the first arst place tho the weather was adverse High winds arose blowIng blowIng blowIng blow- blow Ing the airship out of ot Its course courso anI and rendering It unmanageable Secondly when tho the p peril was greatest as almost Invariably happens In such emergencies emergencies cies des one ona of ot tho the motors went out of ot commission and no alternative was left but to tako th the tho first CrISt opportunity that offered Itself to drop to earth and make a landing The Inevitable deduction from this performance Is 13 that the Zeppelin airship airship airship air air- ship Is serviceable only In calm weather er or and that at no time Is Its Us machinery absolutely safe Its utility for military military mili mill tary purposes Is therefore therefore very limited limited lim lim- while Its Us use for tor general transportation transportation trans trans- purposes Is out of or the tho ques ques- tion It would bo madness to think thinkS S of r handling passenger traffic In a conveyance so susceptible to accident and arid so unmanageable when adverse atmospheric conditions arise Those S who vho have havo been discussing tho the probabilities probabilities probabilities proba proba- of ot a 3 Zeppelin trip across the Atlantic are to be set down simply as the victims of or deluded enthusiasm S The fact tact may as well be recognized recognized recognized that the practical application of ot the airship Is still an affair of ot the theS S Indefinite future In Its Us present stage of ot development nt the best machine of ot otI I this t type pe affords nothing more than thana a suggestion of ot possibilities the realization real reali S of ot which remains a v very ry difficult difficult cult problem 41 |