Newest in War

We may shortly see a giant dirigible coursing through the sky, with a dozen small fighting airplanes suspended from it ready to fly off at a moment's notice. Lengthy studies of this problem by the Army Air Service culminated in success last week at Mitchel Field, L. I. A large ring was placed on the upper wing of an airplane and a hook of corresponding dimensions was hung from the passenger gondola of an airship. The airplane pilot regulated his speed till it was no greater than that of the dirigible and was picked up and carried along without the slightest difficulty. The apparatus will be modified in detail only, and will permit both the picking up and taking off of airplanes.

The largest semirigid airship in the world, the TC-2, having a gas capacity of 750,000 cubic feet, is being completed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, to serve as an airplane carrier. The Washington Naval Conference placed a limitation on the number and tonnage of ship airplane carriers, but no such restriction was placed on airship carriers--at that time scarcely thought of as practicable. Army experts also claim that the airship carrier will have many advantages over the naval airplane carrier.