Identifier: reviewofreviewsw59newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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AERIAL COAST PATROL (Too little is known of the splendid work done by our naval aviators onour own coast. They are equipped with the wireless telephone and thus cancommunicate with headquarters while in the air. Our photographs show theworking of the telephone)
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© Underwood & Underwood THE GIANT BRITISH DIRIGIBLE R-SS, STARTING ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE (With her sister ship, the R-S.^, this vessel represents Britains improvement on the Zeppelin rigid type of airship.She is 670 feet long and 80 feet in diameter, but weighs less than 30 tons. Nineteen hydrogen-filled balloonettes in-side the aluminum framework sustain the vessel. Motive power is furnished by five 2S0-horsepower engines, carriedin four gondolas. On one trial voyage this British dirigible returned to her hangar after a flight lasting nineteenhours. It is expected that she can cross the Atlantic, with favorable winds, in less than two days—then turn aroundwithout landing on the American side and make the return voyage home) TRAVEL BY AIR ROUTESOVER LAND AND SEA The Transatlantic Race—Transition from War to Peace Condi-tions—Commercial Aeronautics—Progress of the Dirigible BY FRANCIS ARNOLD COLLINS

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