Site of shed is desert about 13 miles east of Karachi, India; built by British Air Ministry; length 850 ft., clear width inside 200 ft., 180 ft. at doors, and clear height at center 170 ft.; it is provided with sliding doors at east end and blank wall at west end; one condition of tender was that shed should be capable of being taken down if necessary and erected elsewhere; construction throughout is steel; to house two rigid airships. See description by T. Scott in Bombay Eng. Congress -- Papers, vol. 16, no. 108, Nov. 1927, 2 pp., 2 figs.
The Karachi airship shed
Engineer
Engineer ; 142 , n 3702
1926
3 pages
6 Figs partly on p. 690
Article (Journal)
English
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