The aerial age : a thousand miles by airship over the Atlantic Ocean; airship voyages over the Polar Sea, the past, the present and the future of aerial navigation (1911)
Wellman, Walter, 1858- · New York : A.R. Keller · leaf 290
urs of motor-ing with one engine, equivalent to approximatelyeiglit days, or a theoretical 4,000 miles (about3,500 knots.) Thus, so far as advance calculations are ofvalue, and considering gasoline alone, the Amer-ica was to set forth with a rather small margin offuel endurance—enough for a run of… … THE EXGIXES OF THE SHIP 233 did not. It could be done; that is, hydrogencould be carried in steel bottles, compressed to125 or 150 atmosj^heres, and be emptied into thereservoir overhead in case of need, the steel bot-tles being thrown overboard to lighten the ship.But it was not necessary in our…
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