The Santos Dumont Flight Manual, printed out （·山度士·杜蒙特飞行手册,打印出来）.pdf

The Santos Dumont Flight Manual, printed out below, indicates the amount of detailed work done by Giles and me. No need to read it word for word. This document, apart from being useful for routine flying, was handed to the Civil Aviation Authority. They typed it out again and sent it back to Anthony saying it was his cherished ‘Certificate of Airworthiness’. Nowhere did the CAA document specifically mention ‘certificate’ but Anthony was given a (verbal) assurance that that is what it was. A few years later the CAA said they had never issued a C of A for the Santos Dumont. The key perpetrator of this cruel deception was, so it appeared, the ‘expert’ sent on many costly visits to Cardington to be taught mainly by myself and Giles everything he managed to learn about airships. He was, I believe, given some sort of lighter-than-air award for his matchless services to the lighter-than-air community of enthusiasts… The last C of A for an airship in Britain had been signed within a few weeks of the appointment in September 1930 of Hugh Dowding, later Baron Dowding of Bentley Priory, to the Air Council as air member for supply and research. He was immediately put under severe pressure to sign off, on the basis of dodgy optimistic technical reports, the airworthiness certificate for the new R101 airship. The R101 crashed on 5 October 1930, killing forty-eight of those on board including Lord Thomson, secretary of state for air. TECHNICAL APPENDIX 1. DESCRIPTION 1.1. The airship G-BAWL is a pressure blimp of 33,000 cu. ft. capacity with a fore and aft ballonet each of 3,000 cu. ft. capacity. The envelope was constructed by Airborne Industries at Southend, of 2 ply cotton fabric with neoprene proofing. The envelope has a length of 72 and a diameter of 28. This material is equally suitable for hydrogen or helium as lifting gas. 1.1.2. The car was constructed by J. Tomlinson and G. Camplin. It comprises a g