Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1931, Page 31

v WORLD CARRIES ON N DIRIGIBLE WORK Crash of R-101 With 48i Deaths Year Ago Has Spurred Designs. , By the Associsted Press. A year ago yesterday England'’s giant airship, the R-101, crashed, killing 48 persons. As the anniversary is observed, per- haps the greatest monument to the ship and its dead lies in the international epirit to carry on in lighter-than-air develcpment. | Two countries, Germany and the: United States, have shared in keeping | alive this spirit which has survived; shocks of disaster touching every air- ek minded nation since Gount Ferdi- | nand Zeppelin gave his invention % | the world. Germany Contributes. Germany's contribution in the year {s marked by construction work on & new commercial super-airliner and fur- ther displays of airship dependability by Graf Zeppelin flights; America’s by the ompletion of the U: S.+St Akron and| plans to go ahead on a sister ship, the ZRS-5. RS . England, shaken by the disaster and Jeft with the R-100. decided to- stand | by, maintaining the one ship as an| xperimental vehicle, but planning no constructicn. | 5-Piece Enamel Breakfast Suite g , | ] A cozy set of table and four $12 60 3 w G . P ‘ Mahogany-Finished Jenny Lind chairs, Attractively finished in en- Day Bed ‘ '50¢c a Week—The Hub N i el |l v : A new and attractive style in day beds | 3 5 - ) y —wood frame with graceful trimmings— Y R i e A \ & 3! complete with cretonne covered mat- $ 85 [ e 3y || tress pad. o Kroehler-Made Vs : ! " B 50c a Week—The Hub. amel, lifting helium. England’s airliner was filled with inflammable hydrogen and its sudden end near Beauvais, France, was made more terrible by gas-fed flames. Eckener Scraps Design. Dr. Hugo Eckener, the Graf Zep- pelin’s venerable skipper, took the bold- est step because of England’s expe- rience by 'scrapping the design of the 1.2-128, & new airship for commercial work, for a larger one to be filled with helium. | The LZ-129, designed to carry thei same load as the LZ-128, and there-! fore larger because of helium’s lower buoyancy than hydrogen, will have a gas capacity of 7.030,000 cubic feet against the U. S. S. Akron's 6,500,000 cubic feet. As the largest airship in the world, it will be nearly 30 feet longer and 2 feet thicker than the Akron. Built to accommodate 50 passengers and Crew, it is scheduled to be completed late in 1932 or early in 1933 Official assurance that helium will be supplied by the United States has not been given, because official request has not been reccived. Helium exporta- tion, however. is permitted, if requests are approved by the President with the joint recommendations of the Secre- | taries of War, Navy and Commerce. May Develop Diesels. A further step by Germany to elim- fnate fire_hazard may be the develop- ment of Diesel engines burning crude ofl instead of highly inflammable gaso- line or benzine. America’s contribution to lighter-than- air progress has been the completion of the U. S. Akron as a Navy scout, with strength as its paramount feature and a number of new design elements, in- cluding engines housed in the interior of the fabric-covered hull, swiveling propellers and an advanced water re- covery apparatus to take care of ballast. The Navy's contract calls for two air- ships with cancellation of the second without cost to the Government allowed at any time up to Navy acceptance of the U. S. 5. Akron. Plan Passenger Craft. ‘With the impetus furnished by these two military scouts, American interests plan to match Germany's commercial airship development by building an air- liner to take its place alongside the L1Z-129 in carrying passengers, mail and express over the Atlantic Ocean in regu- lar, scheduled service. A demonstration of such service has been carried on by the Graf Zeppelin in round-trip flights between Friedrichs- hafen, Germany. and _Pernambuco, Brazil. in which a preannounced sched- ‘é::fl ‘was adhered to despite weather con- ons. Davenport | Long Loose Cushion Bed-Davenport Suite | JIL ' H ter k Setting your house in order for Fall? Here’s an op- = 3 2 I " : A colonial ma- Oak Chlffonler | portunity to refurnish your bed-living room with a $ [ - i S inet Desl( £ : . Lady's Desk P hogany _finished s i o two-in-one suite of jacquard velour. 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