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Show Zeppelin Bombs. Basing hi3 calculation upon the data which were procured when the Z-4 made a descent at Luneville, France, in 1913, Aeronautics estimates that the maximum capacity of the modern Zeppelin for carrying high explosives ex-plosives is about 1 tons, and that they cannot possibly carry the five tons which have been claimed for these ships of the air. The same authority estimates that In crossing the 300 miles from the German base to the English coast a ton and a half of fuel is consumed, and that If a ton and a half of explosive explo-sive is carried a static state of equilibrium equilib-rium will have been attained by the time the coast is reached, the lifting power thereafter being dependent upon the lifting planes. Explosive bombs carried by the Zeppelin weif;h 185 pc-unds and the incendiary bombs about twenty pounds each. |