TRANSATLANTIC AIR LINERS

Evening Star, Issue 17922, 18 March 1922, Page 12

TRANSATLANTIC AIR LINERS

STATE ROOMS FOR SIXTY PASSENGERS.

Designs are now completed for the great aerial liners that are to be used on the cross-Atlantic service between Spain and South America.

With accommodation for sixty passengers and mail packages, the new airships will be nearly three times as large as the world’s previous largest airship—tho ill-fated R3B. Luxurious .accommodlation is to be provided for the passengers, a dining room lounge, and a smoking room are all included in the design. A unique feature will be the provision for each passenger of a private state room. These rooms will be built along the side of the airship, and will have long windows Jet into the outside covering of tho ship.

In one corner there will ho a wash basin, and under the window of each room a comfortable armchair will bo placed. A bed will occupy the side of the room farthest from the window.

Each liner will he inflated with 6,000,000 cubic feet of hydrogen, as against the 2,400,000 ft of the R3B, and will make the journey from Seville, in Spain, to Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, in forty hours. The service is to be run by' a combination of Spanish and South American capitalists, who have entered into a contract with the German Zeppelin firm, who are to provide the airships and the technical staff. The Governments of Spain and Brazil have agreed to provide the necessary airship harbors and mooring masts.