Show ALL METAL s SHIP lIr WILL BE BUILT UNITED UNITED STATES TO CONSTRUCT AIRSHIP WHICH MAY BE SHENANDOAH'S SHENANDOAH'S SHEN SHEN- SUCCESSOR Henry Ford Is Also Interested In Ship Which Is Said Will Be Proof Against Fire And Weather Elements Washington President ent Coolidge and the navy department are arc taking lively interest in the construction of th th worlds world's first metal all airship If their fin findings findings- ingS' ingS are satisfactory congress will probably be asked to appropriate the money for a dirigible of tf that type to take the place o of the doomed Shenandoah says FrederIc William Wile Vile The Aircraft Development Devel Development Devel- Devel veI c-veI- corporation of Detroit is row now building a demonstration vessel the distinguishing feature of which is that it is metal The Shenandoah's steel frame was encased in a silk envelope Some of the testimony just developed at the Lakehurst inquiry into the Shenandoah's Shenandoah's Shenandoah's doah's loss was to the effect that a silk-clad silk dirigible affords no adequate facilities for anchoring the girders of an airship airs That deficiency will not exist in an metal all craft In addition the Detroit dirigible is claimed to be both fireproof and weather proof Its constructors also contend that it will have a speed carrying capacity and range of action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion superior to any existing airship of or similar size Mr Coolidge is as game as any sailor in the navy refusing as it were to give up the airship just because Commander Lansdowne's craft fell afoul the elements The president has not the remotest intention intention tion of abandoning g the dirigible system s tern tem of aerial construction He authorizes authorizes authorizes au au- au- au the statement that there is a as al little justification for doing so on account account account ac ac- count of the Shenandoah disaster as s s there would be in building no more ocean liners for fear they would all an meet the fate of the Titanic Uncle Same must continue his e efort ct ef effort fort to conquer the air air by by dirigible as well as by the than heavier types in Mr l Coolidge's opinion Heis Heis He Heis is watching eagerly to see whether the Detroit engineers have hit upon a system for the dirigible that will restore congress' congress faith in it On all hands it is conceded that the light- light than er-than-air machine received a serious blow when the Shenandoah was de de- de It is largely up to the Dc- Dc to sh shw w that they have hit upon a device that is at least an advance advance ad ad- I ad-I vance upon the system that fell feU rather easy prey to the winds in the middie middle mid mid- I dle die west a month ago The man chiefly responsible for the creation of the metal all dirigible is Ralph U. U Upton former chief engineer engineer engineer en en- of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Rubber Rub Rub- ber company's aeronautical department department depart depart- ment and times four-times winner of national national na na- na- na and international balloon races Howard E E. E Coffin one of the Coolidge Coolidge Cool Cool- idge air board members q quotes otes Italy's Italy's Italy's It It- alys aly's greatest aviation expert Signor Signor Signor Sig- Sig nor as saying that Upson is the leading aircraft engineer in the United States if not in the world |