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ZEPPELIN COMPANY’S TESTS.
BERLIN, March 13
The prospect that mail and an occasional venturesome passenger may be shipped aboard Zeppelin airships while in the air is held out in an official notice issued by the Zeppelin Navigation Company to-night. Coi. Udet, the famous German airman and trick flier, has been caiiying out experiments which, it is claimed, have shown the project to be capable of fulfilment without danger. . The scheme was originally devised by the United States Navy and tested for military purposes in the airships Akron and Macon some years In essence it consists of flying the ’plane into a loop suspended from the airship. When the correct position is attained a, grappling device is brought into play, special stays on the ’plane being used for this, purpose. When the ’plane is locked into post-, tion its propellers are slowed down ami a considerable part of the dead weight is thus transferred to the airship. The mail and passengers then enter along an extension of the normal gangway.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1937, Page 7
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