ZEPPELIN FLIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 7

ZEPPELIN FLIGHT.

Cruise of South American Ports. ARCTIC TRIPS IN SUMMER. (Received. 10,30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 2C. A message from Perhambuco says the Graf Zeppelin passed over, the port of Victoria, the capital of the State of Espirito Sarito, at 4.40 * p.m. and flew seaward, and passed the steamship Almirante Jaceguay. She is expected to arrive early on Monday morning. After leaving Rio de Janeiro at 6.52 a.m., New York standard time, she had been reported regularly along her northward course. The dirigible Los Angeles at New York to-day will test the mooring mast for the Graf Zeppelin. The mast is mounted on three heavy caterpillar rollers drawn by a tractor, and can be drawn into the hangar with the airship attached. Mr. E. W. von Meister, of New York, representative in America for the Zeppelin, states that after her return to Eriedrichshafen she will commence an extensive series of trail-blazing flights. She will go to' the Arctic Circle three times, this summer, and will visit Tromso, Iceland, Spitzbergen, and make several trips to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and other points, carrying tourists. A message from Pcrnambuco states that the Graf Zeppelin arrived there on Monday morning.