Several airships had just arrived, and at one of the passenger gates the people waiting for arrivals crowded closely to the metal fence.
A formation of airships flashed through a tear in the clouds like a handful of hurled, silver chips.
If de airships was a steamin' around over our haids, we'd nebber be sure of our lives.
Aunt Sarah was in no mood to listen to anything about airships after that; and Dot took her first lesson in darning, there and then.
Practically all the new airships contemplated look to a much greater speed than the pre-war speed of about 40 miles an hour.
Of course, the great difficulty of airships has been their ungainly size and the difficulty of housing them.
Just how the balance will be struck between airplanes and airships is a big question.
Airships have, then, behind them a rich heritage and before them a bright future.
Some of the plans for future airships are unbelievable to one who has not followed their development carefully.
The building of airships goes on with increasing eagerness.
They dropped shells from airships and fired on it until the place was burned down to the ground.
Illustration: Zeppelin Dirigible, One of the Great Fleet of Airships Which Germany Is Using in the War.
Air Junction promoters invited the Graf Zeppelin and subsequentairships to make their base here rather than at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Vickers have acquired the Parseval rights for the British | | Empire, and several airships of this type are likely to be put in | | hand by them shortly.
Experiments of the utmost importance to all airships are in progress with a view to ridding the gas of this air cheaply and quickly.
The Lebaudy airships were what is known as semi-rigids, having a spar which ran practically the full length of the gas bag to which it was attached in such a way as to distribute the load evenly.
Seventeen thousand pounds has been expended in purchasing land near Friedrichshafen; workshops were erected, and it was announced that within one year the construction of eightairships of the Zeppelin type would be completed.
In April of 1910, the Admiralty determined on a naval air service, and set about the production of rigid airships which should be able to compete with Zeppelins as naval scouts.
The construction of the giant airships of to-day and the successful return flight of R34 across the Atlantic seem to point to the eventual triumph, in spite of its disadvantages, of the dirigible airship.
It is to be noted that nearly all the disasters to airships have been caused by launching and landing--the type is safe enough in the air, under its own power, but its bulk renders it unwieldy for ground handling.
These trials demonstrated that sufficient progress had been made to justify the construction of Zeppelin airships for use with the German army.
But there is no reason, so far as we know, why their great Zeppelin airships shouldn't come sailing over England, to drop bombs down where they can do the most harm.
Big as they are, those airships are painted so that they're almost invisible from below.
If that turned out to be correct he could afford to have a better model made; then he could take up the idea with some of those capitalists who were interested in building airships of all kinds.
He had long dreamed of spinning through the upper currents in one of those bustling airships that are becoming more common every day; but, like Hugh, he had not expected the golden opportunity to be sprung upon him so soon.
Airships are not so bad, after all," declared Dorothy.
The Wizard and Dorothy have both come here through the air, and I am told the earth people have invented airships that can fly anywhere they wish them to go.
As the Sawhorse started away through the trees Dorothy said: "If we had one of those new-fashioned airships we could float away over the top of the forest, and look down and find just the places we want.
And once Ozma had a Gump that flew all over this kingdom and had sense enough to go where it was told to--which airships won't do.
But in time the airships may cause us trouble," continued Ozma, "for if the earth folk learn how to manage them we would be overrun with visitors who would ruin our lovely, secluded fairyland.
How did the Redfern bunch know that any one of our airships would show up here?
Artillery has been invented which can reach airships flying at 5,000 feet, but there is not much of it.
The early visits of Zeppelin airshipsto Antwerp have been described in a previous chapter.
He and Ned went in one of the small airships and soon they were hovering over the grounds surrounding the lonely house where Ivan Petrofsky lived.
His father sanctioned the plan of going to the rescue in one of Tom's several airships and, Mr. Damon, having been on hand, at once agreed to go.
It was a delicate operation, and Tom had not had much experience in that sort of thing, for his other airships and aeroplanes worked on an entirely different principle.
Airboats and airships flocked to Sickle Mountain; some of them hastened back to Port Carpenter for loads of food, for there was none in the storehouses at the embarkation camp.
They sent airships and freight-scows to the dozen-odd cities and industrial centers that had been already explored, to gather cargo, as far as possible the items in shortest supply on Poictesme.
Why, today they have cross-country airships that carry complete dining outfits with a first-class chef in attendance, also sleeping berths to be made up when night draws close.
Our familiarity withairships helped to rustle this job for us and we've got to make good, no matter whether we fly to Japan, India, South Africa or any other old country under the sun.
The arrival in France in the autumn of 1917 of a group of American aviators with American-built airships brought an administration announcement which viewed the event as of signal importance.
The opportunity rested with the United States to give its Allies such a great preponderance of airships that the enemy would be driven from the skies altogether, impotent either to give battle or defend himself.
Sporadic raids over no-man's-land and visitations of German airshipsadded to them.
On the same day British aeroplanes brought down one of the monster airships off the Danish coast.
Ten German airships were brought down and eight others were driven out of control.
The projects for raising a huge army, an armada of transport and freight ships, and a fleet of airships were ridiculed by her press writers as examples of American bluff and bluster.
Even the broad expanse of the air has been made a field of warlike activity, with scouting airships flying above contending armies and signaling their most secret movements to the forces below.
In addition to these, rifle fire is apt to be effective, in case of airships coming within its range.
From a hundred airports the great Government airships had long since sailed into the skies, carrying those selected by the wheel at Washington for sacrifice to the Earth Giants.
There had been screams and cries for mercy, and piteous scenes when the Government airships had deposited them there and flown away, but now an intense silence had descended upon the doomed.
A swarm of airships came into view, swirling in savage fight.
Two squadrons of Chinese airshipsscour the globe but cannot find Liberia.
China, after fifteen futile attempts to locate Liberia, sues for peace, asking Liberia to send an envoy who will be able to guide airships carrying Peace delegates and the first instalment of indemnity to Liberia.
Up to the present, a principal factor militating against the economic operation of airships has been the large and expensive personnel required for handling them on the ground, especially in stormy weather.
The main object was to test the practicability and value of mooring airships to a mast.
At the same time German commercial interests are negotiating with foreign countries with a view to the development of airships abroad, and plans are being discussed for an airship service between Spain and Argentina.
The construction of a number of other airships was ordered, but for various reasons was delayed or never completed up to the outbreak of war.
For this reason, therefore, it appeared that principally aeroplanes and airships would have to be employed from shore bases for coast defence and that "carrier" ships would be necessary to enable seaplanes to work with the Fleet.
The mooring-mast experiments have had considerable success and airships have been moored in high winds and over long periods with the assistance of a very small personnel.
This one, said the station commander, was much the worst damaged of the two bombed in the raid, but, by good luck, there had been no airships in it at the time.
The floors of both sheds (which stand side by side, with only a few feet between) are flush with the level of the ground, so that the airships they house may be run out and in without a jolt.
Nor had these late airships the bright golden colour of those that one saw over London in the earlier raids.
I will hardly need to tell you that neither of these things would have happened if we had had airships to keep us advised of the whereabouts of your battle fleet.
The cars, which were both smaller and lighter than those from the airships brought down in England, were all underslung, and none of them was enclosed in the framework, as had often been stated.
The proof of this was seen at one of the older sheds which we visited, where both of the airships it contained had been cut off fore and aft to reduce their lengths sufficiently to allow them inside.
They have continued to state from that day right down to the end of the war that it was the German airships which warned Von Scheer of the approach of Jellicoe, and so enabled the High Sea Fleet to escape.
Eight o'clock came and there had been no sounds of airships flying above.
Then we'll come back and put theairships out of commission as carefully as possible.
Behind the British hydroplane the other German airships came rapidly, keeping some distance apart, however.
So all the theories, fantastic enough some of them, about great airships hovering over the beautiful city, and dropping bombs from a great height, were practically disproved.
Several fires broke out below them in different parts of the factory property, and soon the Germans had to give so much attention to saving what they could, that their fire against the hostile airships noticeably slackened.
Through a glare of light, and amid a hail of shots, the greatairships rushed down to hover over the German factories.
Over the German lines they flew, and then the Germans awoke to the necessity of ignoring the fire on their flanks and began shooting at the airships over their heads.
In order to distract the attention of the Germans as much as possible from the direct front where the airships were to cross the lines, a violent artillery fire was maintained on either flank.
Both of the airships had their aeroplanes smashed and their decks crumpled up, and the unfortunate crews and passengers were hurled through the impenetrable darkness to the ground.
I was about to ask, a few minutes ago, why airships would not do for this business.
The airships would have been deluged, and blown to destruction by the tremendous gusts which, at intervals, packed the rain-choked air itself into solid billows of water.
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