mooring-mast

Updated: May 25, 2025

Up to the present, a principal factor militating against the economic operation of airships has been the large and expensive personnel required for handling them on the ground, especially in stormy weather. The mooring-mast experiments have had considerable success and airships have been moored in high winds and over long periods with the assistance of a very small personnel.

Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes - Aviation in Peace and War