TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 4 May 1923, Page 5

TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRWAY.

SPAIN TO ARGENTINEI FOUR FLIGHTS A WEEK. SPEED OF EIGHTY MILES. (By Cable— rress Association.—Copyrights (Received 1 p.m.) LOXDOX, May 3. The "Daily Chronicle" gives details of the first trans-Atlantic airway. Zeppelins will operate between Seville and Buenos Aires, where terminal aero- ] dromes, mooring masts, repair sheds, and ■hydrogen factories will be located. There I will also be emergency landing grounds at the Canaries and Corboda, in the I Argentine. The American hangars will Ibe made on tlir revolving principle. I owing to the variability of the wind. j Four Zeppelins are being built to inj augiirate the trial, and flights will begin in the autumn. Each airship is fitted with nine engines of 400 horse-power, carrying forty passengers, eleven tons of mail, and (roods. i v addition to the crew. There will be two flights weekly in each direction, the time to cross Hie Atlantic Wing three days sixteen hours. They will have a speed of SO to flO miles. Each airship will carry six pilots and powerful wireless sets. Seville and Buenos Aires will be linked up with London and Chionpo by aeroplanes. There will be five cabins for eight people, in addition to the saloon, kitchen, diningroom and har. The airships will be lighted by electric lights developed by wind-driven dynamos. — (A. and X.Z.)