Pleasure Trips In The Air.
Luxurious Vessels for Long Voyages.
The Paris “ Figaro ” states that in four months there will be four dirigible balloons capable of carrying fifteen passengers, the captain, and two mechanicians, ready for pleasure cruises in France.
The Transaerian Company is undertaking the work, and t lie craft will have a gas capacity of 178,500 cubic feet, and will be propelled by 200 h.p., motors.
The cradle?, constructed on aluminium frames, will he furnished after the style of the saloon of a private yacht, and fitted with every luxury for long voyages. The Trar.sierian Company is already building a series of stations, which will he fitted up as docks for the airships, and stations for the passengers. Those of Sartrouville and Meaux exist already, and a third is being constricted at Vincennes. Others will he established at Nancy, Orleans, 13 >rdeaux, Toulouse, and Pan, towns which will he served by the balloon line,
The “ Figaro ” says that this is not, as some people might think, mere romancing, but serious, solid fact, and the company has been formed by business men and practical engineers,
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXX, Issue 2130, 8 February 1909, Page 6
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