FLOATING ISLANDS
FUELLINC STATIONS FOR TRANSATLANTIC PLANES.
UtIDER CONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA. NEW DEEP-SEA MOORING SYSTEM. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) (Received June 11, 10 p.m.) LONDON, June 11. The “Daily Chronicle’s” air correspondent says that the first floating aerodrome designed as a fuelling station for trans-Atlantic aeroplane Services is being built in America on behalf of an influential syndicate, which proposes to establish an air mail between America and Europe. A new system of deep-sea mooring has been devised, and the top of the island will be flexible, so as to ride out safely the roughest weather. If the experiment is successful, similar islands will be moored every few hundred miles between the United Stales and the West Coast of Ireland. The first islands will be manned by a small crew, sufficient tis re-fuel aeroplanes,, but later larger islands, with restaurants and sleeping rooms, will be established.
A representative of the syndicate is now in Ireland in connetion with the scheme to make Ireland the ter* minal point of all trans-Atlantic air routes to Northern Europe.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10921, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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