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Show WIND 18 HOLDING AUP Giant British Dirigible Fears to Start on j Return Trip. i TO TAKE AMERICAN Colonel to Be Sent Over as Observer for t is.; j MINEOLA. N Y., July 9 Again today to-day unfavorable winds from the east prevented the giant dirigible from starting on her return trip to England. Eng-land. British officers in charge of the R-34 announced that there was no prospect 'hai the airship would get away befort dawn tomorrow. It was made clear, however, that the star! would be made at daybreak to morrow or on r nda for at that houri the maximum amount of gas could be taken on in the bags. Dirigible Is Inspected Officers of the United Stales army and navj aiation sections have been perm in d to inspect the ship and Captain Cap-tain Samuel T. Moore of the balloon section of the army today gave this information to the Associated Press repreentative of the first lighter-than-air ship to cross tiie Atlantic. I Over all ihe R-31 is 640 feet in length with tour cars or gondolas suspended sus-pended from the cigar-shaped enve-lope. enve-lope. The forward gondola is occupied b the navigator ami pilots and from it all parts of the ship are controlled by means of speaking tubes and bell signals. In the rear of the forward gondola Is the wireless room which also holds one of the ship's engines. The two , Mde gondolas each contain an engine and are onlj lar' enough for two men to work. The rear car holds two engines. en-gines. Lite the gondolas can be seen by visitors to the field, little or nothing 1 bei D allowed to filter out concern-Ing concern-Ing ill inside of the big bag. Inside , the bag is the deck of the ship. It runs the greater part of the length of the dirigible md is only nine inches wide except at its middle where it widens out into a compartment eight by twenty feet ued bv the officers and crew as a dining BSuoon. Lifting Power of Ship The hydrogen gas the lifting power of the Ship is carried in eighteen compartments inside Ihe envelope, rhese compartments are on the top oi the ship and arc of gold benter 'skin, which in common languago is nothing more than the linings of in-testlnes in-testlnes of calves When ready to start on a flight the linal inflation of these gas containers is made. This operation take place usually at the minimum teraperatur of the air when the greatest quantity of gas can be taken into the bags i The expansion of gas in the bags is relieved by realeasing water ballast at the rate of ten per cent of water in 20 degrees of rising temperature. Also ten per cent of all water ballast is re-i re-i leased in each 250O feet of altitude. When the R-34 leaves tho ground it is permitted to rise to its equilibrium, equili-brium, or about as high as il can go. On reaching its equilibrium the engines en-gines are started and the flight begins. be-gins. The fuel gasoline and oil is carrid in 81 tanks. Six of these tanks are fixed to the framework of the bag structure and the others are known as sliding tanks and can be discarded as ballast should the occasion arise. The water ballast is carried in canvas can-vas bags of two types. There are eight emergency bags, four forward and four aft which may be emptied in emergency emer-gency because they cannot, be controlled. con-trolled. Six other water bags are controlled con-trolled by levers and their contents c;ai be released as desired. The water wat-er ballast contains alcohol in sufficient suffi-cient amount, to prevent freezing in high altitudes. The dining saloon contaaas three tables capable of being raised to the upper framework when not in use. The saloon is large enough to permit hall of the crew to eat at a time. The food is cooked by appliances attached to the exhaust pipes of the engines. The diners stand at a cupboard, there , being no chairs aboard the ship. The crew sleeps in light hammocks i along the sides of the deck suspended out over the bag proper and in case a sleeper falls from his net there is ; nothing to prevent him falling through the bag to death. All members of th crew wear rubber rub-ber soled shoes to prevent the possibility pos-sibility of striking a spark which would i mean damage and possible disaster to the bag. American Observer to Go NEW YORK, July 9 Colonel William Wil-liam N. Henslcy, Jr , who will be the American observer aboard the R-.l on its return flight, has been authorized by the war department to continue his observations in Europe after he has landed at East Fortune. Scotland Col one! Hensley lakes the place for the, return trip of Lieutenant-Commander Zachary Lansdowne, r S. N.. v.bo was the American observer on the R-U4 on the westward journey. Rum for Aviators Wartime prohibition has not prevented pre-vented the navy department from obtaining ob-taining rum. which Is part of the official of-ficial ration of the dirigible's crew. i Tw enty gallons of the liquor reached here today and is being stowed aboard the R-34. Navy officials said it came- j from a New York dealer. WASHINGTON, July 9. Favorable weather for the return of the British i.'irUible R-34 over the southern route, I to Europe during the next 1' J hours was forecast in the weather report I sent to the commander of the airship ! today by the navy department. |