Dirigible BalloonsHayward, Charles B. (Charles Brian)
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Dirigible Balloons
Hayward, Charles B. (Charles Brian)
Aeronautics; Airships
Light steel and aluminum tubing are employed in the construction of the
frame supplemented by numerous piano-wire stays. This frame extends
almost the entire length of the envelope and carries at its rear end a
cellular, or box-kite, type of stabilizing rudder, instead of the former
gas balloonets employed on the Clement-Bayard I, Fig. 13. This cellular
rudder is in two parts, consisting of two units of four cells each, the
two groups being joined at the top, with a space between them. In
addition to acting as a stabilizer, this is also the direction rudder,
its leverage being increased by making the end planes somewhat larger
than the partitions of the cells. Between the cellular stabilizing
rudder and the envelope is placed the horizontal rudder for ascending or
descending. In the illustration this appears to be a flag, but it is in
reality a long rectangular plane, which may be tilted on its
longitudinal axis, the latter being at right angles to that of the
balloon. There are two air balloonets of about one-third the total
capacity of the balloon itself, and they are designed to be inflated by
large aluminum centrifugal blowers driven from the main engines
themselves.
[Illustration: Fig. 13. Clement-Bayard I]
There are two motors, each of 125 horsepower, both being of the same
conventional design, _i.e._, four cylinder four cycle vertical water
cooled. In fact, they are merely light automobile motors. The cylinders
have separate copper water jackets and the motors themselves are
muffled, which is a departure from the usual custom. Each drives a
separate propeller carried on top of the main frame through bevel
gearing.
The Clement-Bayard II made itself famous by its rapid and successful
flight from the suburbs of Paris across the Channel to London, in
October, 1910.
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