Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2017
Prior to the war, experience in this country in the production of successful rigid airships may be counted to be practically negligible. The war period, however, produced an intensive programme of rigid airship building in which the early designers were seriously handicapped owing to this lack of previous experience, and owing to the insufficient time and opportunities for research and experiment, a state of affairs which persisted to the end of the war.
Note on page 549 1 R. & M. 970.
Note on page 550 2 “ The Aerodynamical Characteristics of the Airship as Deduced from Experiments on Models with Applications to Motions in a Horizontal Plane.” R. Jones, lour. Roy. Aero. Soc., February, 1924.
Note on page 551 3 See for instance, “ Forces on Airships in Gusts,” C. P. Burgess, Nat. Av. Comm, for Aeronautics. Report No. 204.
Note on page 551 4 “ The Development of Airship Mooring,” G. H. Scott, Jour. Roy. Aero. Soc., 1926.
Note on page 552 5 Vide R. & M. 607.
Note on page 552 6 R. & M. 600.
Note on page 553 7 “ The Rigid Airship in Relation to Full-Scale Experiment,” R. A. Frazer, Jour. Roy. Aero. Soc., September, 1925.
Note on page 553 8 Vide R. & M. 895.
Note on page 563 9 R. & M. 800.
Note on page 563 10 R. & M. 790.
Note on page 564 11 See R. & M. 971.