Experience indicates that great strength and power is needed to withstand storms, this in turn requiring great size to lift structure, crew, and cargo; greatest external change in Zeppelins built up to 1915 was in tail structure; British construction lagged before war; Shenandoah only rigid airship made in America; features of construction of Graf Zeppelin; British use stainless steel and Diesel engines; United States naval airships ZRS-4 and ZRS-5; yet bigger ships in future predicted.
Steady advance in Dirigibles
Iron Age
Iron Age ; 123 , n 1
1929
6 pages
5 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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