Metal-Coverd Airship to Carry Twenty Tons
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Metal-Coverd Airship to Carry Twenty Tons
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Metal-Coverd Airship to Carry Twenty Tons
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Capable of carrying a useful load of 40,000 pounds, a huge metal-covered dirigible, larger and faster than the "Graf Zeppelin," is to be built for the army at a cost of $4,500,000. It is intended as an air tender for a fleet of airplanes. The metal «skin" of the airship will act as the container for the helium gas, being reinforced by circular rings and longitudinal members. Eight motors of 600 to 800 horsepower will drive the ship at a maximum speed of 100 miles an hour when fully loaded. This big airship will be forty times the size of the "ZMC-2," the metal-clad dirigible built in 1929 as an experiment and since thoroughly tested.
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1931-04
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552
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Alberto Bordignon
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