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be provided for the blower engine to prevent flame from back-fire or exhaust. The radio outfit will be supplied by the Government. The car or body is of standard airplane type, consisting of a rigid rectangular girder of spruce trussed with wire. The engine and radiator are to be mounted forward, with a sheet steel fire bulkhead behind them ; next the pilot with all controls and instruments ; next the observer with duplicate controls and radio key ; next the blower and radio outfit ; next a fabric tank for water ballast ; and last the petrol tanks. Reserve oil and gravity petrol tanks may be mounted near the engine. The car is to be enclosed with airplane linen except over the engine, where the covering shall be of sheet aluminium. The engine compartment shall be well venti- lated and the bottom perforated to prevent accumulation of gasoline in case of leakage. The car is to be electrically insulated from the envelope, and no valve or other operating leads shall be of continuous wire. All metal parts in car are to be electrically connected. Metal parts of valves and their seats, wherever located, shall be electrically connected. The negative buoyancy of the. ship on landing will be carried by skids of ash, to which are securely strapped, as shown, waterproof fabric cylinders stuffed with kapok fibre. The cockpits shall be of convenient size, seats and rims well upholstered, and arranged to insure the comfort and con- venience of the pilot and observer. The pilot, who is in the forward seat, shall have all neces- APRIL i2, 1917. sary and specified instruments and means for control of the ship. In particular his instrument board shall include two independent and different means for measuring the pressure of hydrogen in the envelope. The car shall have a jackstay along top and stirrups under bottom, as shown, to enable a man to reach engine or gasoline tanks in the air. The maximum propeller diameter permisible is 8 ft. 6 ins. The car is to be suspended from the envelope by means of galvanised-wire cables with breaking strength of 2,700 lbs. arranged as shown. The cables are to be fitted with means for adjusting their lengths to equalise the load. The cables are connected to the suspension band by crows'-feet of braided flax, f-in. signal halyard stuff. To carry the car when the dirigible is inclined the upper ends of suspension cables are connected by a fore-and-aft stay as shown. The suspension cables shall be connected to the car by hooks or bolts arranged to permit ready detachment. Power Plant. Includes engine, propeller, radiator, starting device, petrol and oil tanks, piping, controls, petrol and oil gauges, pressure gauges, thermometer, power-transmission system, tacheo- meter. The-engine shall be a standard Curtiss OXX-3, 100 h.p. aviation engine, or a Hall-Scott A-7-A, 100 h.p. aviation engine. The engine shall be provided with an effective starting device, so fitted and installed that engine may be easily started from the front seat. If hand starting is used, a booster coil will be provided. THE REPORTED by the Admiralty:— Killed. Flight-Lieut. J. E. Morgan, R.N. Sub-Lieut. A. Sandell, R.N.V.R. Accidentally Killed. Lieut. W. W. Primrose, R.N. (R.N.D., attd. R.F.C.). Missing. Flight Sub-Lieut. J. M. Ingham, R.N. Sub-Lieut. J. E. Maxwell, R.N.V.R. • Sub-Lieut. H. W. Owen, R.N.V.R. (R.N.D., attd. R.F.C. Missing, believed Killed. Flight Sub-Lieut. R. K. Slater, R.N. Injured. Flight Sub-Lieut. D. W. Gray, R.N. Flight Sub-Lieut. M. R. Kingsford, R.N. Prisoners of War. Flight Sub-Lieut. B. A. Trenchmann. F 8940 1st Grade Air-Mech. W. W. Higby, R.N.A.S. F 1866 Leading Mech. D. Kennedy, R.N.A.S. F 9197 Leading Mech. F. A. Wright, R.N.A.S. Reported by the War Office :— Killed. Lieut. C. McC. H. M. Caffyn, E. Surrey, attd. R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. C. C. Gibbs, R.F.C. Lieut. A. S. Mackenzie, R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. A. N. MacQueen, Gordon Hdrs. and R.F.C. Lieut. S. Stretton, R.F.C. Died of Wounds. Lieut. H. F. Duncan, Highland, L.I. and R.F.C. 18046 1st Air-Mech. J. S. Hazell, R.F.C. 8203 1st Air-Mech. G. C. Longley, R.F.C. Died. 52755 2nd Air-Mech. W. Ironside, R.F.C. Previously Unofficially now Officially reportedKilled. Lieut. C. M. Buck, I.A. Res. of Off., attd. R.F.C. ROLL Or HONOUR. Previously reported Missing, now reported Killed. 2nd Lieut. A. Appleton, R.F.A. and R.F.C. Lieut. H. Butler, York, attd. R.F.C. " ' : Capt. E, J. Henderson, R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. L. A. Norris, R.E., attd. R.F.C. Accidentally Killed. and Lieut. R. P. Hamphill, Leinster, attd. R.F.C. Previously reported Died of Wounds, now reported Died. 41060 2nd Air-Mech. J. W. Chiverton, R.F.C. Wounded. 2nd Lieut. G. C. Dell-Clarke, R.F.C. Capt. J. A. D. Dempsey, R.F.C. Lieut. O. R. Knight, Queen's (R.W. Surrey) and R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. R. H. Lloyd, R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. H. W. L. Poole, Duke of Cornwall's L.I., attd. R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. R. T. Robbins, Lincolns and R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. W. D. B. Taylor, R.F.C. Capt. A. M. Wynne, R.F.C. 8468 1st Air-Mech. G. M. Campbell, R.F.C. 61912 2nd Air-Mech. T. G. Davin, R.F.C. Missing. 2nd Lieut. W. G. J. Clifton, Ox. and Bucks. L.I., attd. R.F.C. Lieut. W. P. Garnett, R. Berkshire, attd. R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. N. L. Knight, R.F.C. Lieut. P. J. G. Powell, A.S.C., attd. R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. A. G. Severs, R.F.C. Lieut. D. M. F. Sinclair, R.F.C. Lieut. H. P. Sworder, Queen's (R.W. Surrey), attd. R.F.C, Capt. H. Tomlinson, M.C., R.F.C. Lieut. C. S. Vane-Tempest, Durham L.I. and R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. H. Welch, R.F.A. and R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. V. F. Williams, R.F.C. Previously reported Missing, now reported Prisoners of War in German hands. Lieut. C. B. Bird, R.F.A., attd. R.F.C. Lieut. T. G. Holley, Can. Inf., attd. R.F.C. Lieut. B. P. G. Hunt, Yeo. and R.F.C. Previously reported believed Taken Prisoner at Kut-el-Amara, now reported Prisoner. 445 Flight-Sergt. H. Campbell, R.F.C. Another Hun Attack on Salonica Hospitals. IT is learned from Salonica that a squadron of German aeroplanes on Sunday, April 1st, bombarded the hospitals at Exissou, despite the fact that the red crosses were visible from a long distance. Dead and wounded are reported among the patients and hospital staff, as well as among the wounded Bulgarian prisoners. This is the fifth attack which the Germans have made on these hospitals within a month. A Raid on Zeppelin. Sheds. THE Danish frontier paper the Ribe News Reporter learns that British aeroplanes on March 2ist or 22nd attacked the Zeppelin sheds near Tondern, on the w&St coast of Schles- wig. The British aeroplanes dropped several bombs, but nothing has been stated as to the extent of the damage done. On the days following German aeroplanes were seen patrolling the coast. 342
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