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Batch 1; I should have more Q1 news in a few days, I think.


Ottawa Citizen
Janurary 3rd 1931
HONG KONG
It has been announced that the RCN flagged transports Crystal Veaumont and Alison Lockhart have arrived at Hong Kong and finished resupplying the Canadian Anti-Piracy task force, which is expected to once again step up it's anti-piracy patrols in Chinese and Filipino waters. With the naval supplies offloaded, the freighters are now being released to deliver needed medical and quarantine supplies to Chinese, Filipino, and other affected nation's ports.


Halifax Chronicle-Herald
Janurary 12th, 1932
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
A government spokesman announced today that the Dominion of Canada would be sponsoring a prototype airship to be government funded and built with cooperation of the Henry Berliner from the Engineering and Research Corporation in Maryland USA, Doctors Sydney and Sheryl Highwind of the Shinra Munitions Company's Aerospace division in Halifax, and Sir Barnes Wallis of the Airship Guarantee Company in Yorkshire, though Canadian Vickers in Montreal. Negotiations with the US and UK Companies and Governments have been ongoing for the past two years, since Naval observers at the 1929 Fleet Excersizes were impressed with the American airship's role with naval forces, as well as other airships being used in civilian capacities, most notably as Germany's diplomatic courier. Details on the design are scarce at the moment, but the Herald has obtained these sketches related to the project;

Also of note that the Canadian Ministry of Northern Development will also be cooperating with the United States Bureau of Mines to exploit Helium reserves recently discovered in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.


Halifax Chronicle-Herald
Janurary 19th, 1932
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
Continued searches of the area of the recent skirmish between the Royal Canadian Navy and the pirate cruiser Deathshadow have yeilded no further evidence. While the majority of Canadian officials are concluding that the wreckage recovered and the lack of subsequent raids, or any manner of communication or announcement from the Pirate Harlock (as happened after the loss of his battleship Arcadia indicate a substantial victory over the nefarious pirate and scoundrels of the world's oceans, certain members of the Admiralty still have their doubts. Also released is an official sketch of the cruiser, based on eyewitness reports from the Freighters she raided, as well as details provided from officers and crew aboard HMCS Renown and Repulse;

A copy of this sketch has been passed on to all embassies in Ottawa, and being distributed at Canadian ports. Any sailor who spots a ship fitting this description is advised to contact a representative of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Shinra's Technology at its best. :-)

*pulls out magnifying glass and deerstalker hat*

Looks sorta like something from Naboo...

I suppose it is designed to take out Imperial. walkers
I forsee things, strange things in the Wesworld. I find them interesting, and have the potential to take the world as we know it and turn it from light fiction, to science fiction (within probability).

Halifax Chronicle-Herald
Janurary 22nd, 1932
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
The first structural components for what local workers have taken to referring as "That Flying Contraption in Hangar C" are being assembled at RCAF Station St-Hubert today. While details on the project are still few and far between, those that have been revealed have only given rise to more questions in the aeronautical community. Released yesterday is this sketch, presumed to be an artist's conception for the finished product;

Aeronautical experts the Herald has consulted have stated that the ship appears to be a fully rigid airship design, possibly intended to have a metal-clad skin similar to the United States' ZMC-2 design. The design also seems to incorporate large vertical lift rotors for increased altitude mobility, along with a prominent control surfaces at the bow, and at the aft nacelles for agile manuvearability. Also of note is that unlike previous airship designs, this ship appears to have eschewed several engine pods in favor of what appears to be a single drivetrain reminisent of naval shaft/propellor designs.


Halifax Chronicle-Herald
Janurary 24th, 1931
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Another large explosion at Canadian Vickers today. No casualties reported.

It even has conceptual "nose art".

I like this. Canada's turning itself into a huge Area 51. Where's Tesla, damnit? The Canadian upstarts must not be allowed to gain a lead in technological wackiness.

We all live in a flying submarine...
A flying submarine...
A flying submarine...


o_O

Frankly, I like this a lot.

As do I. Brazil might be tempted to buy if Shinra is selling.

:B

classified photo of the Toronto suburb of Malton;

...and a flying car in every garage!


Anyway~
Here's a coloured version of the above sketch. Better artwork will be released as construction continues.


....and here's Canada's next flying contraption concept;

Yeah....right......

Not going for the Shera yet??

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Originally posted by Rooijen10
Not going for the Shera yet??

Those two are at least feasible... though I'm not sure I'll be able to convince people about the ShinRa/Berliner sF-01 up there. Shera kind of irritates me in having almost nothing to do with it's prececessor, but that's a discussion for elsewhere...

For the record, the forward 'firing' chains on the first sketch are an anchoring mechanism, which would in theory allow the ship to moor itself at locations lacking the traditional mooring facilities (I think anyway....).

I think the only you can make that thing fly is to use hydrogen, not helium. and don't get me started about how inefficient that multi-prop is.

I don't think it will fly, not enough mass to hold a sufficient amount of gas to keep her in the air....and thats before the metal skin feature is added.

Those huge engines will also add even more weight....

Making it larger would simply make the project extremely costly in resources.

How a country with 1/10th (if that) the industrial capacity of its southern cousin can produce an airship leaps and bounds ahead of anything is beyond me.

Neat idea but well past the insanity line.

Less insane in my eyes than all those "Ray" weapons some nations are looking at. (like Italy which actually has the F-ray in its naval weapons list)

Rufus Shinra; Proud to be Canadian...
... but it makes me wonder why he speaks Japanese when I watch him.
:-)

"Electrical Experimenter from October 1913:

By utilizing infrared rays, an Italian engineer named Ulivi, claims to have discovered a method of causing the explosion of torpedoes, submarine mines and other death dealing devices at distances of fourteen or fifteen miles from the spot whence rays are transmitted wirelessly.

French war office specialists, such as General De Castellnau and Major Ferrie, head of the Eiffel Tower wireless telegraph station, recently went to Havre and boarded a yacht, from which Ulivi operated his apparatus. From this yacht Ulivi caused the apparently spontaneous explosion of torpedoes placed at distances extending to fifteen miles.

Details of the apparatus are kept secret, but it has been learned that a powerful projector is first employed to search for the presence of certain metals within a given radius. The infrared rays, which scientists say have 300,000,000,000 of vibrations per second, are directed toward the spot selected. Any explosive in the vicinity immediately explodes.

Should further experiments confirm the inventor's claim, naval war will become impossible, for Ulivi's apparatus will cause explosion on warships situated fifteen miles from the spot where his apparatus is being operated wirelessly.

He will also be able to destroy military airships and aeroplanes which have metallic framework and carry explosives, such as the Zeppelin, German army type."

It might be total bollocks and would never work, but its still fun. I just press _this_ button and all your ships/planes explode.

Who needs radar when you have this?

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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin
How a country with 1/10th (if that) the industrial capacity of its southern cousin can produce an airship leaps and bounds ahead of anything is beyond me.

I think it's closer to 1/3 if you go by factory comparison, but the project has consulted with US and UK Airship programs, so it's not exactly starting from scratch. The general principles aren't brand new, this is just the first design to consider incorporating all of them in one package.

And if we're having a Ray building contest....

Looks like the news thread deteriorated into the "Ray Weapons" thread. Japan doesn't have any so it'll have to work with its energist bombs...