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LIGHTER ENGINES SUGGESTED FOR R.101.

FUEL GAS OR DIESEL ENGINES THE BEST?

Statements that the two new State weight involved in attaining this airships, R. 100 and R.101, are com- performance, the result of which is mercial failures, and that the air-that "R.100 could carry no pay ship built by the State at the Royal load and only about half the fuel Airship Works, Cardingtoa, "is in-required; whilst the R.101 could not capable of carrying any useful load lift off the ground with either fuel nr all on a flight to Egypt, are or pay load." He points out that made by Sir Dennis Burney in a there is no reason why the two ships book entitled "The World, the Air, should not carry out demonstration and the Future."

flights with passengers because, un- The allegations not only that, der those conditions, the weather. technically, the ships will be "in-can be selected for the voyage, capable of commercial operation, whereas a commercial airship must but that the whole system of moor operate in all weathers on a res ing to a high tower developed by gular schedule. the Air Ministry is fundamentally unsound and that a new method originated by the Airship Guaran tee Company, the group of which Sir Deanis Burney is the head and which has built R.100, must be triel will obviously require an answer, though it may not be pos sible to give a complete reply until Hying experienes has been obtained with the two ships.

out,

The Allegations.

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1 contained in the following table, which appears in the section of the hook dealing with the development and prospects of airships: -

Weight Lift to Ballast

of ship 2,000ft.

tons.

| These disquieting statements, coming from one who for many years has been the leading advocate of airships as commercial vehicles for world transport, seem curious The author evidently realizes this himself, for he says that as a result of the last seven years' investigation and work upon R.100:-

estuary, de,, without extraneous aid, and thereafter anchor-or moor like a marine vessel.

The new propulsion system in- volves the use of fuel gas and some. form of Diesel or other oil, and the transference of the power units to the end of the ship, like the screws of a steamer, with the ability to swing the screws to give a vertical thrust to counteract up and down movements of the tail when moor- ing. The mooring raft is designed to clamp the ship down in a frame which can be moved by suitable power into the shed, thus obviating mooring at a high mast; and the elliptical ship is, as its name im plice, an ellipse with the greater axis in the Eorizontal plane and with two hull floats on either side of the centre, enabling the airship to alight on water like a flying-

boat.

Say, 350

tons

"I am firmly convinced that the

Discrepancies in Figures. airship enthusiasts not only over-

These developments, Sir Dennis stated their case, but failed to Burney considers, offer the only The gravamen of the allegations realize that a vessel that could prospect of building an airship, of, neither make a landing without

displacement, of elaborate extranecus aid nor hesuficient speed and strength for the housed or rigidly, secured in rough Atlantic service, the one which he weather must always remain of considers offers the best chance of doubtful value for commercial pur-financial success. poses."

This, at least, is an honest con fession of misguided enthusiasm. Sir Dennis Burney goes on to say: "There were two coarece open one was to confess failure, the other weight to say nothing and get down to the real problem and find a solution. I had one further difficulty. I had undertaken to write some articles on airship subjects. Were these to of an optimistic nature er of a pessimistic nature? I decided on the former course with mixed feel ings of hope and trepidation."

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Total

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Now, the total lift under standard conditions is 153 tous for the R.100 and 149 tons for the R. 101. Accord ingly, the R.:00 has 12.5 tons of pay load and the R.101 none at all

The R.101 would make a more favourable showing with lighter engines.)

The above is a summary of the i main contentions of the airship section of the book, and the Air Ministry will, no doubt, take up the cudgels thus thrown down. It should be pointed out at once, how- ever, that the total lift of the R.101, 2 given by Sir Dennis Burney, is certainly three to four tons under the figure officially given when the inspection of the airship was made recently, weight of the ship is given in the book as one official figure. favourable margin of four or five Thus the official figures give a

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ton more than the

Dennis Burney's calculations show 26 to 35 passengers, whereas Sir

The accommodation in the R.100 ed out that until the publication of tone, equivalent to a load of from provides for 100 passengers, and if we take the average weight of passenger at 160lb. or 1list, and person, this works out at, roughly, allow 100lb. of luggage for each 11 tons for passenger freight, leaving about one ton over for mail.

when the R.100 was well started and This, apparently, was at a time

nearly half-built. It may be point- this book no statement had been made of Sir Dennis Barney's real frelings, whereas the State airship was a big experiment, on the results policy has always been that 1.101 of which nothing could be said be- It must be remembered that the liftend the fact that it was designed with the expectation of being able of a ship varies with the tempera-to fly to India. ture and the height of the baroj meter.

I would be possible! to obtain 10 tons more lift in Eng-i land and 10 tons less lift in Egypt

der certain conditions.

A commercial service has to take

Three New Ideas.

shows that he is leading up to three Sir Dennis Barney's book clearly

new ideas for airship development

margin at all, so there is a dis-

his dislike of the Air Ministry's Cepancy here to be cleared up.

The author has never concealed stem of mooring an airship to a if not perfcet, has at least stood the high tower. But this system, even

test of trial, whereas the new method proposed by Sir Dennis Burncy exists upon paper only, and that "it should render the opera the author does not claim more than tion of picking up the mooring

the worst conditions, however, and, which he is evidently very anxious paint much easier than under exist-

theoretical allowance for

fuel

this is one reason for making a shall be tried out, presumably bying conditions." The third pro- the allocation of further funds from posal of the elliptical ship is, frank- the public purse. These ideas, andy, very experimental. the claims made for them, are as follows:-

weight of 100 per cent. in excess of the still-air allowance ander stan- dard conditions. As these ships are to-day, R. 100 wants at least 10 tons

1. The Howden Propulsion sys "extra" lift and R. 101 99.5 tons extra

tem, which enablce a gain of 65 per lift to make them commercial pro-

cent. in the propulsive efficiency to positions upon the London-Egypto, obtained without increase of route at the low cruising speed of weight. 70 m.p.h.

Speed for Safety.

Sir Dennis Burney then argues that the minimum speed required for safety in the operation of a commercial ship is 90 m.p.b. He gives a calculation of the extra

2. The Mooring and Docking Bait, which enables a ship to ie placed in her shed in any average weather by mechanical meana,

3. The Elliptical Design, which enables an airship to alight upon any enclosed or partly enclosed water, such "as a harbour, lake,

Credit must be given to Sir Dennis Burney or the ingenuity of his ideas, which merit careful con- sideration, but it remains to be seen whether a book of this description, produced on the eve of the first fly- ing trials of the new airships, will help or hinder further development. It should be borne in mind that both R. 100 and R.101 are admitted- ly full-scale experiments to obtain much-needed information in regard to the operation of airships which it would be impossible to get in any other way.

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