NOT FAST ENOUGH

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 10

NOT FAST ENOUGH

THE GRAF ZEPPELIN ATLANTIC HEAD WINDS LESSON TO BRITAIN United I'rets Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrleht. Australian Press Association—United Service. (Ecceived 16tli October, 3 p.m.) LONDON, loth October. Commander Burney, tho British airship authority, reviewing the flight of the Graf Zeppelin, considers that neither the Graf Zeppelin nor tho RIOO, now Hearing completion, possesses sufficient speed to carry out a regular Trans-Atlantic service. He points out that the cruising speed of the Graf Zeppelin is 65 miles an hour, and the BlOO's will be about 75, but for a passage against the prevailing westerly winds there must be a cruising speed of 95 to 100 miles an hour to complete the voyage1 in two to two and a half 'days before it would become a practical commercial proposition. The Airship Guarantee Company had considered this problem and hoped after the 8100 had successfully passed her trials to construct a ship capable of cruising at a hundred miles an hour and to cross to New York in the heaviest weather without refuelling. The 8100 was a million and a quarter cubic feet larger than the Graf, and would carry a hundred passengers instead of twenty. These were the chief differences. ■ American eye-witnesses' description of the landing of the Graf Zeppelin was rebroadcasted to England. The increasing roar of the engines as they approached the aerodrome was an impressive feature.