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Identifier: airfareoftodayof00midd (find matches)
Title: Airfare of to-day and of the future
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Middleton, Edgar Charles, 1894- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Aeronautics Aeronautics, Military
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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weredivided off into battalions. To Prussia was ap-pointed four, and Bavaria had one other. The totalpersonnel was 84 officers, 493 N.C.O/s and 1708 men. Here a small digression will be necessary to em-phasize to a suitable degree that Germany was thenand had always been, until recently, more of an air-ship than an aeroplane Power. The Crown Princestrip with Zeppelin in the L.Z.3 in 1908 was the firststep towards a national movement. From that datethe Zeppelin industry grew apace. The L.Z.3 wastaken over by the Army and renamed Z.I., andimportant bases were constructed in the greatestsecrecy at Heligoland and Friedrichshaven. After the destruction of the L.Z.4 by thunder-storm, August, 1908, the public subscribed £305,000 ;but disaster followed disaster, and although by 1913Germany had produced a Zeppelin serviceable andairworthy, it was the most costly experiment thatwas ever attempted. The Army officials next divided airships into c CD E • 5 * ■ c: *- CO ro C; ;>• <CON
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HOW THE AIR POWERS STOOD 2? classes, and gave to each class a distinctive lettering.Thus P.L. was the Parseval Luftschift; L.Z.Luftschift Zeppelin. To the Navy were apportioned two squadrons offour ships and a reserve apiece, and there was acommon station possessed of four double revolvingsheds. The life of each airship was assumed to befour years, and at the end of that period it wasintended that new craft should be substituted. August, 1914, found Germany possessed of 30serviceable airships of all kinds. The Navy estimates provided for 50 seaplanes.Six groups of 6 always to be in commission, theremaining 14 to be in reserve. At Cuxhaven acentral station was erected; also six smallerstations, each with accommodation for 10 machines,personnel, fuel, and storage. Putzig, on the Baltic,was converted into a Naval Flying School, and otherstations followed rapidly at Kiel, Sonderburg, andHeligoland. Russia The air history of our latest and greatest ally will,when it is written, serve to op

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