OPINION IN GERMANY
WAITING FOR BRITISH TRIALS Australian Presi Association—United Service. (Received 16th October, 3 p.m.) BEBLIN, 15th .October. German aviation experts, despite popular jubilations over the Graf Zeppelin, are awaiting the tests of the two British airships before finally passing a verdict on the practicability of airships for regular passenger work. They consider the Graf Zeppelin's flight a fine feat, but it demonstrated that the risks were too great, and that airships were still to susceptible to weather conditions, which had little or no effect on heavier-than-air machines. The flights of the two British airships next year are therefore awaited with great interest to settle the controversy as to the usefulness of the airship compared with a flying boat like the huge Dornier Wai, now building, to carry fifty passengers three thousand miles non-stop.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 10
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