Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1907 — Aluminum Airship a Success. [ARTICLE]

Aluminum Airship a Success.

Count Zeppelin of Germany has aroused still further interest in aeronautic circles by a recent trip in his aluminum airship. He remained aloft for seven full hours, and during that time traveled 220 miles, or at the rate of over thirty miles an hour. The akship is about 450 feet long, is of rigid aluminum, holds more than 10,000 cubic meters of gas and is driven by two Damler motors, each of eighty-five horse power. Inside the alumipum- shell are placed sixteen isolated gas bags of globular shape. There is passenger accommodation for ten persons. Although the count Is 69 years old, he fully believes he will live long enough to perfect his machine so that it will be acknowledged to be a 'thoroughly reliable airship. , »