For commercial work airplane, large or small, has comparatively short range; unsuitable for transoceanic service; large flying boat has possibilities in overseas service but it will never compete economically with large airship; large rigid airship always supreme for long-distance transport, but will need expenditure of considerable private capital aided by State cooperation; results of Naval Committee investigations of inherent limitations of airplane. Abstract of paper read before Am. Soc. Mech. Engrs.
A comparative examination of the future of the rigid airship and the aeroplane
Aeroplane
Aeroplane ; 36 , n 2
1929
Article (Journal)
English
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