FUTURE USE OF AIRSHIPS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19692, 8 August 1929, Page 11

FUTURE USE OF AIRSHIPS.

.—# AUSTRALIA SUITABLE. SIR HUBERT WILKINS'S COMMENT. (rHITKB FBBSS iSBOaVTIOW—BT SISCT«IC TBLiaRATH —COPTBIQHT.) (Received August 7th, 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 6. "As an adventure the Graf Zeppelin's round-the-world flight will be a washout," gays Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Australian explorer, "because it is too monotonous." Sir Hubert Wilkins hopes before long to see airships in Australia, where they would be invaluable, as the conditions are excellent. He leaves for the Antarctic on October sth, and hopes to explore 2500 miles of the coast line, linking the British Falkland Island dependencies with the Ross> Sea. He will work on the Pacific side, opposite the area where Sir Douglas Mawson will operate. —United Service. SYDNEY AERO CLUB'S NEW GROUND. MASCOT CRITICISED. (UKITED rS«BS ASSOCIATION—BY K.ZCTBIC TILIOKAPH—COPTBIQHT.) (Received August 7th, 8.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 7. Mascot Aerodrome, at Sydney, is the subject of severe criticism by the Aero Club and visiting aviators, who declare that it is Bwampy after rain and altogether too small for larger aircraft. The Aero Club has consequently acquired a new site for the aerodrome at Liverpool, adjoining Warwick Farm racecourse, 18 miles south-west of Sydney. Its area is 214 acres, on which it is proposed to erect a commodious club house, hangars, and workshops, and to create a sta dard golf course. The membership of the Aero Club now numbers 800, of whom 450 are flying members. —Australian Press Association. AHRENBERG'S FLIGHT. ABANDONED OWING TO FOG. (Received August 7th, 8.80 p.m.) OTTAWA, August 6. Captain Ahrenberg, the Swedish airman, who reached Ivigtut (Greenland) a month ago, has abandoned his attempt to reach Labrador. Ahrenberg states that flying through fogs must be Bolved before this route can become practicable.—Australian Press Association. [Ahrenberg, who was accompanied by Lieutenant Floden as relief pilot, and Liunchind as wireless operator, left Stockholm on June 9th in a Junkers seaplane, the Sverige, in an attempt to fly the Atlantic by way of Greenland. He stated that the flight was not to be a record-breaking adventure, but he hoped to open what he considered would, within a few years, be the normal commercial air route across the Atlantic. The seaplane was forced down at sea and towed to Reykjavik, Iceland. Ahrenberg, after numerous difficulties, managed to reach Ivigtut, but had to postpone further flights.] GRAF ZEPPELIN'S CRUISE. (Received August 7th, 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 6. The Graf Zeppelin's world cruise starts on Wednesday at midnight. "The long jump from Friedrichshafen to Tokio will be the most dangerous of the journey," says the commander, Dr. Herr Ackener, "because the Siberian wastes must be traversed." —United Service. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. PARIS, August 6.

Because Britain has not subscribed to the cost of the light aeroplanes in the international competition for a 4000 miles' circuit of Europe, the British flyers, Captain Board and Miss Spooner, have to fly as French entrants. Lady Bailey is doing the circuit independently.—Australian Press Association. SCHNEIDER CUP ENTRANT DEAD PARIS, August 6. Lieutenant Bonnet, the holder of a world speed record, who was specially training to represent France in the Schneider Cup, crashed when looping the loop at Bordeaux and was killed instantly.—Australian Press Association. fin December, 1924, at the Stres, Bonnet attained a speed of 278 miles an hour, a record for aeroplanes, Class C, as certified by the Federation Aeronautiqne Internationale. The speed record in unrestricted classes is held by Major de Bernardi, an Italian, of 318 miles an hour.]