The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1931 |
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Page 184
... airship was ' well found ' and had proved her quality on long and severe tests . The loss of R 38 was due solely to lack of knowledge , at the time , of strains to which an airship is subjected in the air . The same may be said to a ...
... airship was ' well found ' and had proved her quality on long and severe tests . The loss of R 38 was due solely to lack of knowledge , at the time , of strains to which an airship is subjected in the air . The same may be said to a ...
Page 185
... airship , whatever the cause of her ultimate destruction , was the victim of circumstances in which she was like a ship on a lee shore , with no haven of refuge and her fuel giving out . The same predicament faces any big airship to ...
... airship , whatever the cause of her ultimate destruction , was the victim of circumstances in which she was like a ship on a lee shore , with no haven of refuge and her fuel giving out . The same predicament faces any big airship to ...
Page 190
... airship R 100 ; three huge hangars at home , and a fourth in India ; and four mooring towers . These were the beginnings of what was to have been a bold attempt to link up the distant parts of the Empire by airship liners . What is to ...
... airship R 100 ; three huge hangars at home , and a fourth in India ; and four mooring towers . These were the beginnings of what was to have been a bold attempt to link up the distant parts of the Empire by airship liners . What is to ...
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