AIRSHIP PROGRESS.
TWELVE DAYS TO LONDON. j — • v ADMIRAL BYRD'S PREDICTION. (Special to the "Guardian.") WELLINGTON, April 9. I hope within a few years to he able to revisit New Zealand in a big airship," was a confident phrase used by Rear-Admiral Byrd at the Government luncheon in his honour to-day. He devoted a fair amount of his brief speech of response m aviation progress, that he believed that aviation is more* juipoi/tuut as on instrument of peace than of « A .rr, because it brought the nations closer together, and from, a better understanding of each other came permanent peace. ''ln a few years," he added, "airships will be flying across the Atlantic, and a few years later they will be crossing the Pacific, and I hope to levisit New Zealand in a big airship. It will cut down your voyage to England to 12 days." The problem of landing % m fog had not, he said, yet been solved, but when that day arrived there would be flying all over the world. There Avas nodoubt about the use of airships of ten million feet of hydrogen capacity, for thev had a cruising range cf'lo,ooo. to 12,000 miles.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 153, 10 April 1930, Page 2
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