3-028-237 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Rigid Or Non-Rigid?: The Great War-Ships Of The Air, 1909. Diagrams of French dirigibles. The Clement-Bayard, the Lebaudy, the République, and the Ville de Paris. The Clement-Bayard and the Ville de Paris non-rigid dirigibles '...have flexible gas-bags from which the cars are slung by cables, they are without many of the serious disadvantages which follow from suspending a car loosely from a cigar-shaped balloon, and endeavouring to force the whole mass through the air at high speed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.