Two large dirigibles, it is the Memorandum, will be a for the nse of the Army in the near future.—Special Service.
*4° One of these dirigible, we learn from "The Daily Express was Ianached on Febroary 12 from the war balloon factory on Faraborongh Com-
Colonel J. E. Copper had charge ¢f its const tended the launch wai for. He had with hi car Lientevant Waterlow, R.E., Mr. Green, the maker of the 100 horsepower petrol engines, and Mr. McWade, the chief mechanic at the factory The four did not exhaust the lifting power of the dirigible, for the floor of the car was stocked with bags of ballast.
'The new dirigible is of the no"-rigid type. The gas envelope, of Freach make, is of fine rabber, dull yellow io colour, and built op' of three-foot pends, It in considerably over 100 feet it length, and is mackerel shaped, ith n system of internal balloonettes.
The car, of light open work, ix fully three-quarters the Lngth of the en-elope, and is attacked by wire stays to a rib upping along each side of the envelope just below the centre,
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