The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1927, Page 9

| Montgolfer. ba down ee >P ware. hi Bleed tico. of the ‘largest. most ‘ ti pL AaB _ Mensa, the Roberts brothers, i up a | etal ihsusious alle Ga ivdire art mie. The a The Fight. fo Europe in Then LINDY CAN ENJOY EVERY LUXURY INSTEADof FLYING ALONE THROUGH STORMS 2"? «— New Air Siaer Will | Be 780 Feet Long Passenger “As time goes on, the airplane and the airship: will * bear the same general relationsnip to each other as the ‘ motor“truck lines do to our freight and express train cabin, system#?” he says. caine: will pertsae steamships, because a person can leaye his New York office on Friday night,’ be. in London 4 Paris Monday morning, spend four or five bane s, and be back to work at the New York ’ k the follewi ving Monday—all this in the greatest of = and comfort. Designer Arnstein paints the picture of the passenger mounting into the airship by climbing a short flight of wide steps, finding his “deck” space and stateroom, getting acquainted with the club rooms, smoking rooms HIS new liner of the air will be 780 feet = igs and have a cubic’capacity of 6,500,000 y feet. _ A better idea of what this means can be ‘ re-fueling, and will have an average speed of 90 miles an hour, meaning that the. Atlantic could _be crossed in 33 hours, or about a day and a half. All aboard. for Paris, Rome, Naples, Hong rooster and’ duck, baaing and crowing and quacking Sheep, * rooster, duck, ‘hrst. living things _to ride together, placed within the basket of the int balloon. . through the air in a man- -ntade Pisnase, ( Dhesdaie ‘See, he is the handsome Montgolfer;” the lady in was September, 1783. , The place, the courtyard of waiting said to Marie, her queen, as the queen con- Versailles. bt | : obtained when recalling that the tragic Shenan- “4 -doah was but 680 feet thie “With; a cubic capacity % of 2,115,000 feet. ARIE ANTOINETTE, fresh’as a Tt can carry a complete army unit or a total rose, for it was six whole years before of 95 people. It can fly 8000 miles ‘without the mob clamored for her head, was at lunch on the day of the world’s first aerial flight. ——==; “Your Majesty, ¢ gz zg the tangs A ge =o Kong, All Point east, seat ae and south, or ark er first oi in wait said “what have you. : to her,. and lovely Marie, clutching tr cestnneevtinncincsaicaantliainintletneecweiteemmeemnely in her hands a piece,of cake, ran to the window of the palace at Versailles to see the strange sight of a sheep, and rooster making a loud uproar. tinued to eat her cake just as calmly while seeing his- INT tory in the making, as on'that day ‘some six years later HREE YEARS WILL COME THE. ‘iign the mob cried for breed, ake asked why they dad © GREAT TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR LINER not eat cake. But about three years: from now, all of America’s Te was. the ‘‘elder Montgolfer,” famed with his inhabitants who can’ possibly get there will crowd brother over all France for “‘the fvieg bag” which with- around the gangplank of America's first home-made out any pemreed passengers ha aie over the little Ppastenger airship or Zeppelin. bie, oo Annonay a tew months bi Grea€ cranes will swing trunks into the hold. Mes- ae all esi rooms - tie shh a parae for : queen had not seen the flight, = she had heard _senger boys will rush in with bon voyage telegrams, * pone fore even knowing is ship that her husband, Louis XVL, planned to have the (Steat panniers of flowers and fruits. : Montgolfet brothers to court when ,“time permitted,” Stewards will assign ‘“‘deck chairs” and dining room which, the queen knew, would be’when Louis was seats—first and second class. vale of the charms of some Bio the newest ladies-in- One of the world’s most famous et will take lunch and dinner orders for special parties. He will The ‘ladies who heard more about what went on in murmur something sabe terrapin soup, Russian fests Pevavine tal the ns ee ie Mont: English pheasant, woodcock, fresh ase buttered the demonstration of their 35-foot paper bag inflated sparagus and peche Melba. Blk Ka arg amoke from burning damp straw, Perhaps the friends of the first ‘passengers ‘on.’an floating away into the’ air, their record was endangered. American treeroreanic airship will be shown the: swim- And all this ease and luxury of ‘travel ‘€an be had even in the pionering days of commercial airships for about the price of a atcamee ticket! Fear in the minds of possible passengers is frankly met and answered by the airship designers. ROUND THE WORLD ON A TWO WEEKS VACATION ia They believe that for long distance! flights the’ air- ~ ship-is many times safer than the airplane. They point to its many safety devices which control the great silver | and eymaseinn, the smoking rooms, and hii fi hh SHEEP, DUCK AND ROOSTER ps gpd Se cabkneres Castevalory. villors. es ene ‘bird as one thing after another may, in a great emer- FIRST TO RIDE THROUGH THE AIR pe pe: geen ber mb ey iy po ee eae eee ‘The King has permitted them to send up the bal- te table. - within the body of the great air monster, unlike the loon in this courtyard Pegi they told cher, “filled The airship orchestra, will play as the 90 or so construction of previous Zeps, such as the Shenandoah, li things in order that the Montgolfers may passengers _{ find their staterooms, andthe call of “all in the fall of which all mortality occurred in, the ate ’ ‘ tached -cabins. living ‘be the first - land such a ry ob 0 safely, for othershave - ashore that’s going ashore!" booms forth. Special around the world airship cruises will bea}. now sent mere empty This will be no modern Jules Verne fantasy. ss yume up the mere were ret. Hardly had the The navy department has announced that by 1930 ‘hydrogen gas. ships will be suit lor war or commercial use. jor aw: queen saved her kerchief to Mon! olfer as he Some time ann Congress authorized the construction watched his decorated.“ of two airships, each more than’ twice’the size of the — Arnstein of the Goodyear jin Corporation, and balloon, painted. 1 with pul od geen He bow. knots’ and the faces. of retty ~~ Jate Shenandoah.’ Late in June it selected from scores —_awarded-a $50,000 prize for the best design. award. ‘women, , penee away into the clouds, the the sheep and.duck ~ of sa sane and freakish designs, one submitted by Dr. Karl The Akron dirigible company, however, waives the > y 80 died with the Pins of seeing his _ the engine would keel over in mid-air and that the motors socalled xplode. dream come te Men rode the air in ships. The old man was Count Ferdi- But the big cigar-shaped bag was floated out of its shed. It war 419. 8 fect long. von lin of Germany, who had lived to see more than 100 rigid airships _It contained 388,410 cubic feet of gas or enough to lift-24,450. pounds. : It weat. Thg-mob was thrilled: in made three flights with ‘this first air- ship; then, his funds gone, he learned people were. not.yet for aerial navigation. He worked five y lg join to gaiti public initerest.--In 1905 William of Wur-: temberg supp! funds and Zeppelin, then 67, started work on his sec: < When the was first taken out of its hangar the forward steering gear was broken and a oe driven by the wind the entire length of Lake So not stoppistg untit it banged into:the Swiss shore. his:personal supervision, y known that Count Zeppel the lun- ra es de en hn letters telling of the in. thi exploration ‘ich cou b be made pooible for all if only fact within -the next five roe siege ae as (prize, pre gt resin the deg, and hus be prob 3 needle-like Swiss Alps to “ably ere of the giant silver.craft, . sips at a price |. Zeppelin then planned to sail “= Dr, Ammtin and his sat who bave built yome 116 wi 7 ied gf the ter b ol 7 hisled i rr ir it burst. Sh tee Mrs. eee ean i - will be out six months in advance. two weeks’ vacation. : Airshig travel is the answer to the person’ who ‘ peas ee ae hale “who wants something por ap og ooh ge |