HUGE NEW AIRSHIP.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 March 1925, Page 9

HUGE NEW AIRSHIP.

LONDON TO AUCKLAND. A NINE DAYS’ TRIP. LONDON, Feb. 25. A revolution in air travel Methods, by which uii-hip> c-iin in future travel faster, and with more safety, and can be moored to floating bases, is loreshadowed in an 'authoritative statement concerning the new airship, of 5,000,000 cubic feet, which is being constructed by the Airship Guarantee Company for the Imperial -airship route. lit appears that the crew and passengers will be accommodated in. the body of the eralt. instead ot in outside cars. . This will allow of an increase in speed to over 89 miles an hour, ancll give a considerable increase in the flight, range. . .. .... . It would thus be possible to fly from England to Bagdad, in Iraq, in two days, to Colombo in four, to Fremantle in six and a half and to Auckland in nine days, ; . Commander Burney, .the inventor of the. paravane, is responsible for the innovation as regards accommodation for crew and passengers in the new airship. The navigating officer will have accommodation in the air shin’s nose, instead of below the hull. These alterations will make for economy in fuel. The only projections below the airship will be the cars containing the engines*, which will be placed far hack to avoid win cl resistance. This will secure a, streamline effect.

Mooting limits will be placer! on movable platforms instead of being stationary as before, and will bare a contrivance to prevent tlie airship tearing loose from its anchorage. Arrangements are in progress to enable any international commercial vessel to moor at anv commercial mast. The inovabil.itv of the. masts anil enable experimental flights to be. made to Australia, and eke where owing to th» ease with which monitors, provided with masts., ean be moved,.