Detailed criticism of book by E. F. Spanner entitled "This Airship Business"; Spanner's arguments for abandoning experiments with airships are refuted; political points; great deal of book devoted to quotations from patents; technical aspect; treats subject in pseudo-scientific manner; fineness ratio; tubular construction; gas bags; fire risk; lack of reserve buoyancy.
This airship business
Flight
Flight ; 20 , n 4
1928
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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