First "Mother Ship" for Airplanes to Use Helium

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Title (Dublin Core): First "Mother Ship" for Airplanes to Use Helium
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Airplanes and Zeppelins
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): First "Mother Ship" for Airplanes to Use Helium; Caption 1: The 300-foot semi-rigid army airship "R-1" as she will appear when completed, with scout planes suspended from her rigid keel as explained below , and with navigation car forward and two power cars aft, side by side; Caption 2: Chief aero engineer of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, in charge of constructing the "R-1". He predicts that "the entire surface of the airship of the future will be of metal. And the first practical all metal airship will open wide the gates to the use of the airship commercially."; Caption 3: Cross section of the semi-rigid "R-1", showing double envelope that will inclose helium filled balloonets, and rigid, three cornered frameworks keel of duralumin that will run the entire length of the ship
Contributor (Dublin Core): Herman T. Kraft (writer)
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): Interwar period
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1923-02
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 102, n. 2, 1923
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 46
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
References (Dublin Core): Uncle Sam; United States Department of War; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; Akron; Ohio; United States Bureau of Mines
Archived by (Dublin Core): Filippo Valle; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)

Item sets: Wars of Wonders; checked; no full text

Media: R-1 semirigid airship; 1.png; 2.png