Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-07-15 | Page 23 | Huge British Airships Will Launch Battle Planes

I HUGE BUGE BRITISH AIRSHIPS WILL LAUNCH LAUNCH BATTLE PLANES WILL NILL ATTACK EARTH FROM GREAT HEIGHT Speedy Machines Will Be BeAble BeAble BeAble Able to Choose Own Site of Battle i U V S 2 EXPERTS BUSY British Building Large Seaplanes to Fly Ply Miles An Hour LONDON July Keels H-Keels 14 Keels are arenow arenow arenow now In Great Groat Britain for hugo huge rigid airships which wIt will boy hov- hover boyer hov hover er above the clouds with a number of small fighting machines on onboard onboard onboard board ready to launch at a roe says an nn aerol aeronautical expert In the London Dally Daily Chronicle The teak task of theao new machines In n war he says will bo ho to carry aloft to Im- Im Immens im mens heights and to transport It if necessary thousands of o miles squadrons of ot deadly steel steel- steel I built plans attack These will willbe willbe willbe be launched from high above abose the clouds and will rush at ZOO miles mileson an hour and more earthward to harry other aircraft and raid the commerce of the seas LIMIT AND ND ND SWIFT The airships will have the power pow- pow cr er lacking In a small machine the writer says of of long distance lights flights at a great altitude while I on tho the other hand the tho small pIanos they carry will be able to to and out fight any machine laden for a long journey journe- land In In the case of organ specially organ lIy-organ- I attacks by these formidable borno carried borne air fighters on planes at sea by mother ships tho the tactics lair borne of the thc craft sent darting down from froni airships will ba bo to dh duo dive e pell pell-mell mellon pell-mellon I on thel their surface-launched surface opponents opponents Ion I eMs and strike le them deadly blows before they can gain the vantage vantage- nf of HEIGHT W A TAG Height in iii warfare air-warfare as the key to victory and these car airship nor rier fighters rs Mill III ha have haio e the advantage advantage tage tago of being In a position to choose their own moment for a a swoop upon enem craft climbing from the earth The Chronicles Chronicle's contributor sass sas that l France rance Italy and the United States all nil show sho a 0 gr recognition recognition recognition of the tho importance of mobile aerial harbors for s swarms arms of fighting planes The United states already has lIas laid the keel of ot an airship which will launch single single- single seater seater fighters and pick them up again while the mother-craft mother Iq 1 traveling at nt full speed The American flying aerodrome ho adds Ill Bill ill be bo ready to take the air I this summer It will wilt carry as a normal normal load twelve fighters of the latest type CARRIER C I Great Britain has completed the first seagoing vessel in the world I designed specially for tor the t of of aircraft She has a displace displace- displacement displacement displacement I ment of tons and carries seven seen inch 6 guns four inch 4 and anda anda a number of smaller guns Besides torpedo armament the tho now new essel Is fitted with two hangars en- en enabling enabling en enabling abling 11 her r to carry twenty t air air- airplanes airplanes air I planes which will wiil be raised to the th taking off decks by means of elec elec- electric electric inc elevators elo Another ad advance vance in aerial effic eff efficiency Ic- Ic lency Is the construction for the British air tr of huge sea sea- seaplanes sea seaplanes planes with a speed of miles an hour One of the latest types has a awing of feet and carries Ing span nearly two to tv 0 tons of gasoline It Is IsI fitted with twin Condor engines of I 1300 horsepower each driving twin