Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1918 — Zeppelin Limitations. [ARTICLE]

Zeppelin Limitations.

Basing his statements on accurate measurements of a Zeppelin that was brought down in England last October, on known facts regarding the lifting power of hydrogen gas, on the state of the barometer during the flight, on the temperature of the air -recorded in the airship’s log, Jhadoo Jafioz writes in. Aeronautics as follows : “It would appear from the Ing that the latest type of Zeppelin is designed to attain a height of 17,000 to 18,000 feet when over its objective and after dropping its bombs, but Is capable of going even higher under stress of circumstances and at the risk of suffering some slight damage on returning to its base. “These conclusions accord, well with Mr. Warner Alien’s statements that these airships are built with a view to flying between 16,000 and 18,000 feet. Of course, on a short flight they could go higher, in view of the reduced quantity of petrol to be carried.”