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... crew of the Zeppelin watching them from the gondolas and from the windows of the central cabin. The Zeppelin then turned about and disappeared from the Helena's sight. On Thursday that is, three days after this incident-- a large Zeppelin airship drove ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 236 | Page: 1 | Tags: Photographs 

Motoring and a Menace: An Empty Raid

... conditions, a Zeppelin can cross and return, a fact which nobody ever questioned. It proved that Zeppelins can drop bombs which can do a deal of damage if they hit anything and explode. This also we knew. It proved, further, that all the bombs a Zeppelin can carry ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 725 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

Motoring: The Downfall of the Dirigible: A Confidence Trick?

... meagre a victory (a victory mainly over the handicaps inherent in the Zeppelin itself) gave us any warrant for trembling. After six months of mud, blood, and braggadocio, the Zeppelin had the equivalent of nothing to its credit. Why this should have been ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 681 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... airship. It is, of course, necessary to distribute the weights on a Zeppelin airship very carefully in order that the vessel may ride on a level keel. When dropped from the Zeppelin these incendiary bombs create the impression of a trail of light through ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: 1 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN: PERILS OF THE AIR AND THE LAND: LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR W. R. ROBERTSON; Pitfalls in Paris

... one of the Zeppelins, but did not bring it down. Four Zeppelins started on the raid, but only two got as far as Paris. All this is very reassuring, for if a serious A Good Omen rajcj on Paris, undertaken at their own chosen for London. Zeppelins, is a failure ...

Published: Wednesday 31 March 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1103 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTORING.--LAND, AIR AND WATER

... AIR AND WATER. By H. MASSAC BUIST. ZEPPELIN ATTENTIONS. ON the one hand we have a section of the British Press that keeps screaming more vehemently with each visit concerning what it is pleased to style the Zeppelin fiasco, and, on the other, we have ...

MOTORING.--LAND, AIR AND WATER

... matched against Dread nought, in aerial ones Zeppelin were matched against Zeppelin. This school, however, conveniently overlooks the facts that it has taken Germany half a genera tion to solve her Zeppelins that we have not one complete one at the moment ...

THE BRITISH AIR RAID ON CUXHAVEN

... seen by the Germans from Heligoland, two Zeppelins, three or four hostile seaplanes, and several hostile submarines attacked them. By swift manoeuvring the enemy's submarines were avoided, and the two Zeppelins were easily put t.o flight by the guns of ...

Somewhere in Flanders

... he took for a cloud was in reality the Zeppelin envelope, acres of it in every direction floating at about 2,000 feet in the air, and attached to the destroyer by a steel cable. And how the crew of the Zeppelin ever succeeded in successfully connecting ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 698 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTORING and AVIATION

... MOTORING and AVIATION* The thirteenth Zeppelin raid on England had one satisfactory feature. It ended in the destruction of one of the raiding craft. How that occurred we can only surmise, but if what we hear is true, there is no reason for any reticence ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1915
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 813 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTORING and AVIATION

... MOTORING and AVIATION* The thirteenth Zeppelin raid on England had one satisfactory feature. It ended in the destruction of one of the raiding craft. How that occurred we can only surmise, but if what we hear is true, there is no reason for any reticence ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1915
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 813 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs