- Count Zeppelin’s III., rigid type.
- Count Zeppelin’s IV., rigid type, which has done a twelve-hour flight and will be taken over by the Government, with No. III., for £100,000, after a twenty-four-hour test.
- Major Gross’s Army airship, half rigid.
- Motor Airship Study Society’s old airship, non-rigid.
- Major von Parseval’s non-rigid ship building for the above society.
- New airship, of which details are kept secret, nearly ready at the works of the Siemens-Schuckert Electric Company.
The first announcement of the last-named airship was given in The Daily Mail several months ago. The company has engaged a celebrated military aeronaut, Captain von Krogh, as commander of the vessel. The Study Society’s new non-rigid ship will be sold to the War Office as soon as she has completed her trial trips.
The Army will then possess three dirigibles, each representing one of the three opposed types of construction—rigid, half-rigid, and non-rigid—with a view to arriving at a conclusion on their merits.
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“Only a year or so ago, our authorities were talking of aerial navigation in its relation to war as ‘an interesting and instructive study.’ Now we must reckon it as the gravest problem of the moment. The cleverest aeronauts in England should be called upon at once to design an airship, not only as efficient as that of Count Zeppelin’s, but possessed of even greater speed. (His average was said to be about 34 miles an hour.) In speed will lie the supremacy of the air when it comes to actual warfare. Of two opposing airships, the faster will be able to outmanœuvre its adversary and hold it at its mercy.”—Daily Mail, July 11, 1908.
COMMAND OF THE AIR.
GERMANY AS THE AERIAL POWER.
TEUTONIC VISION.