. VIEW MBTHOD OF COXSTRUCTING THE HUEE OF A RIGID AIRSHIP. The girders aud bracing wires are in position, tlie gas bags have been iustnlled and the outer envelope is about to be placed in posiUon. £400,000 as the first year's subsidy. The company would then erect the necessary mooring masts and plant, and build one airship of 5,000,000 cubic feet capacity in order to test the route to India. Subject to this airship passing its trials and carrying out a flight to India in less than 100 hours' time, the subsidy at the rate of £400,000 a year would become payable for a further three ye
. VIEW MBTHOD OF COXSTRUCTING THE HUEE OF A RIGID AIRSHIP. The girders aud bracing wires are in position, tlie gas bags have been iustnlled and the outer envelope is about to be placed in posiUon. £400,000 as the first year's subsidy. The company would then erect the necessary mooring masts and plant, and build one airship of 5,000,000 cubic feet capacity in order to test the route to India. Subject to this airship passing its trials and carrying out a flight to India in less than 100 hours' time, the subsidy at the rate of £400,000 a year would become payable for a further three years, and the company would increase its capital from £400,000 to £1,700,000. If, before the expiration of the third year, the company total of £2,800,000), would become repayable to the Government, half the profits above 10 per cent, earned by the company being paid to the Treasury, until the full £2,800,000 had been paid oft'. Airships with Gas-bags of Ten Acres The vessels to be employed on the service will be of 5,000,000 cubic feet capacity, and will in all proba- bility be built by Vickers Limited, who constructed four of our fourteen rigid airships during the war.
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