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Apr. 25th, 2010 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsmeatI'm currently doing my best to absorb the contents of two books on British airships in the First World War, though I'm not entirely sure why.
The German Zeppeins are famous/infamous. But the much smaller British ones are only known about by airship geeks, even thoughseveral hundred 211 were built. The early ones, like the SS Class, were literally just an airplane, minus wings and tail, slung under a hydrogen gas bag although they quickly got larger and more sophisticated; they were mostly used for anti-U-boat patrols and were quite successful.
I'm just amused to read that ground crews, when working on them, were ordered to sing continually so they would be warned of hydrogen leaks from the change in voice pitch.
The German Zeppeins are famous/infamous. But the much smaller British ones are only known about by airship geeks, even though
I'm just amused to read that ground crews, when working on them, were ordered to sing continually so they would be warned of hydrogen leaks from the change in voice pitch.
