AIR COMMUNICATION

Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 11

AIR COMMUNICATION

THE NEW ZEALAND SCUTE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 25. Commander Burney, in a paper on the airship in aerial transport, read before the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers, discussing the effect of tropical weather on an airship’s life, said it would not be a serious matter, because only three intermediate stations would need to be made on Hie England to New Zealand route. Subject to commercial considerations, these stopping-places should, as nearly as possible, be upon the arc of a grejit circle drawn between two termini. It would be found that the most favorable positions would bo Bagdad, Colombo, and Fremantle or Berth, On such a. route it should be possible, assuming the airship's maximum speed to be ninety miles an hour, for an average of seventy miles an hour f*o be maintained, films the time of the flight would be: From England to Bagdad, thirty-seven hours; Bagdad lo Colombo, forty-one houis; Colombo to Perth, fiftyone hours; Perth to Wellington, thirtyeight. hours. Allowing for loss of time and refuelling at Bagdad and Colombo, Hie. trip from'England to Fremantle should be achieved in six and a-half days. A. and N.Z. Cable.