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Hull of a Zeppelin during construction.

Craft of the semi-rigid type provide a link between small, non-rigid ships and the very large machine which is built with an entirely rigid framework, and has its example in the Zeppelin. The maker forms a skeleton hull of aluminium or some light metal alloy, a method that is shown in figure. The hull of a Zeppelin, slightly more than 500 feet in length, is sheathed with tightly stretched fabric; and within it are the gas-containers—a row of seventeen separate balloons, each in a compartment by itself, and containing a total of nearly 1,000,000 cubic feet of gas—which give these airships a lifting power of close upon 30 tons.

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Aeroplane, by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
Published 1914

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Tuesday 18 August 2020

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Century:20th , Flight, Lighter than Air

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