London, Nov. 4.
At the resumption of the Court Bri nto the loss of the R-101 Yeday' Dr. Hope Simpson, Director of Meteorology at the Air Ministry, ave evidence that the meteorolo ical conditions had been very care-Sully worked out for the fight.
There was nothing about the ther light of the 1-101 to India that need ave worried the navigators. There might have been an error of 75 feet the altimeter reading, and. the reatest possible error was 168 feet.
quoted a letter from Dr, Hugo Eekener, the commander of Grat Zeppelin, expressing the pinion that an error in the fakimeter reading was very improbable, Dr, Hope Simpson said that the ping of the airship at the time the Hendon trial flights was due 40 the instability of the atmosphere. Prior to the Tndia fight the airship had not experienced a wind of over fan hour. She bad experienced more unstable Weather, But not such gusty weather.
Major J. P.-C. Cooper, Inspector vet Aceldents for the Air Ministry and a member of the Special Committee of Investigation which flew from London to vais me mediately after the disaster, said hat he was much impressed by the fact that very few trees were broke the fall: of the airship at! Beauvais, indicating that the fall was very gentle, There was no! Imcehanical defect, he added, in the "Slevators or their' control levers-'At this stage of the proceedings the. enquiry was adjourned.—Reuter.
The New German Aicshi Beilin, No The press records with satist tion the revelation that following the disaster that befell the British airship R101, construction work on the new German dirigible in its abed at Friedrichshafen was suspended in order to exclude as far as possible the possibility of the new airship suffering the same fate, 'A. statement to this effect was made by Dr. Eekener himself in the course of a speech at the annual dinner of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany when, in @ealing with the catastrophe, the German expert attributed primarily to a leak in some of the gasbags due to their chafing by the metal structure of the ai added that it would never attained such dreadful dimensions Dut for the fact that the dirigible was filled with hydrogen. 'Thus, while they were still convinced of the brilliant prospects of lighter~ than-air craft, the explosion that destroyed the' R-101 had clinched their belief that this depended on the use of non-inflammable ga "Therefore we immediately ugpended work on the new Zeppelin and, having in the meantime been assured of an adequate supply of Relium from the United States, altered the designs accordingly and are now building a helium di which must be larger than hydrogen ship on account of the Jower lifting power. The new airship will also be equipped ide-oil motors and its construc probably take a year longer than originally intended but with this delay we will" purest practically complete safety.' TransOcean Kuo Min.
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