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Show Zeppelin Bombs. Basing his calculation ufon the data which were procured when the 7,-i made a descent at Luneville, France, In ISIS, Aeronautivs estimates that the naximum capacity of the modern Jfcppelin for carrying high explosives ex-plosives is about lt 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 1n 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 weigh 1S5 pounds and the incendiary bombs about twenty pounds each. |