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[Olham 164]

No, not at all. He was a Jasta (Fighter Squadron) commander then, and maybe

even recovering from injuries still.

The picture shows him, so much is true, but they did not handle truth too careful

in those days. Recently, there was a paper showing a picture of a German pilot,

saying it was Manfred von Richthofen. Paarma showed the link to the Aerodrome,

where you could see, it was someone else (forgot who).

[Stiffy 1]

No, not at all. He was a Jasta (Fighter Squadron) commander then, and maybe

even recovering from injuries still.

The picture shows him, so much is true, but they did not handle truth too careful

in those days. Recently, there was a paper showing a picture of a German pilot,

saying it was Manfred von Richthofen. Paarma showed the link to the Aerodrome,

where you could see, it was someone else (forgot who).

 

Lol yes it was Hans Franel... back on page one of this thread, i even found the original photo they had taken it from... definitely far mor propaganda than fact in The War Illustrated

[Olham 164]

Well, in those "naive" days, the public sentiments where fired by propaganda on all sides,

and there was little or none better sources for comparison.

The freedom of today is an incredibly big freedom of speech and information, that wasn't

available then.

[Wels 2]

Hello,

 

thanks for sharing !!

 

Regarding the small airships, or blimps: The "tube" or funnel protruding from the underside of the airship's hull is for keeping the inner "ballonett" under pressure.

 

Those smaller airships have no rigid inner structure (like a "Zeppelin", or generally all "rigid" airships), but are filled with hydrogen gas - the pressure of the gas keeps the blimp in its form.

 

Now the inner part of the hull cannot be filled with gas completely, it would be too light, and would additionally expand while climbing to higher altitudes (= falling outer pressure), until the hull would burst. So the hull was made bigger, and only half filled with hydrogen gas. But now the pressure would not keep the hull fully blown and keep its shape ...

 

So a second inner bag or balloon was introduced, filled with air, and open at the underside via the funnel. When the hydrogen gas would now expand due to rising of the airship, it would press the air out of the second balloon (=ballonett) through the funnel, instead of making the outer hull burst. Accordingly, when the gas would compress due to sinking, the ballonett would have to expand to keep the pressure of the outer hull up.

The filling of the ballonett was done with the propellor. The inner ballonett was used as a flexible volume, to keep the blimp under pressure, regardless of atmospheric/barometric conditions.

 

And yes i would like to see those in OFF !! Maybe along with Zeppelins ... ?

 

Thanks for posting,

and greetings,

Catfish