Abstract
The most prominent field for the lighter-than-air vessel is across long stretches of water. The “Graf Zeppelin” confirms this by selecting as its first commercial venture the route between Germany and Brazil. There is a question whether the seagoing airship will merely be a high-speed, extra-fare auxiliary to the steamship or whether by radical improvement over present limited pay-load capacity it can be developed as a direct competitor to passenger-carrying ocean vessels at somewhat near to existing rates. The author suggests a number of means for artificially increasing pay load.
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