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Miloch wrote:
>Looks like a carnival ride...are you sure ya got the 'facts' right?
Didn't verify the basics, eh?
Spy basket -- (Redirected from Spy gondola)
The Spy gondola, Spy basket, Observation car or sub-cloud car (German:
weight an airship's radio-locating antenna). They were used almost entirely by
the Germans in the First World War on their military airships. The spy basket
could be lowered from above through the cloud deck several hundred metres,[1] in
order to inconspicuously observe the ground and to help navigate the airship.
Use
of 1937, it was not always certain which airships used them: the blueprints for
LZ 62 (L 30) and LZ 72 (L 31) included the spy basket operating plant but the
German Navy was no longer installing them at that time; however a fish-shaped
spy basket can be seen on photographs of the German Army LZ 83 (tactical number
LZ 113). After the war the Americans briefly experimented with a spy basket on
the USS Akron.
Zeppelin spy basket development and use
Captain Ernst A. Lehmann, the German airship captain, described in his book The
Zeppelins how he and Baron Gemmingen, Count Zeppelin's nephew, had developed the
device. To test the prototype he blindfolded the helmsman of the airship and
allowed himself to be lowered by a winch from the bombroom in a modified cask,
equipped with a telephone. Hanging some 150 metres (500 ft) below the airship
using a compass he could tell the helmsman which bearing to take and effectively
drive the airship. He later recounted how, while returning from the aborted raid
on London in March 1916 in the Z 12, Baron Gemmingen insisted on being the first
to use it on their secondary target, Calais. The basket was equipped with a
wicker chair, chart table, electric lamp, compass, telephone, and lightning
conductor. With the Zeppelin sometimes within, sometimes above the clouds and
unable to see the ground, Gemmingen in the hanging basket would relay orders on
navigation and when and which bombs to drop. The Calais defenders could hear the
engines but their searchlights and artillery fire did not reach the airship.
LZ26's basket was lowered from the airship on a specially constructed tether
1,000 metres (3,300 ft) long; other airships may have used one approximately 750
metres (2,460 ft) long. The tether was high grade steel with a brass core
insulated with rubber to act as the telephone cable.
Despite Gemmingen reporting a feeling of loneliness while being lowered and
losing sight of the airship, crewmen would nevertheless volunteer for this duty
because it was the one place they could smoke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_basket
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