GRAF ZEPPELIN.
TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. UP-TO-DATE WIRELESS APPARATUS: rlir.U.ed Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; (Australian Press Association.) Received 1.35 p.m. to-day. BERLIN, Oct. 8. In to-day’s successful trial the Graf Zeppelin attained a speed of seventyfive miles per hour. In her transAtlantic flight she will carry apparatus for receiving wirelessly telegraphed pictures, including frequent weather charts drawn up by a Muncin weather expert. The post office at Friedrichshaven has been inundated with postal packages from all parts, including the United States, for inclusion in the airship’s fifty ton of air mail to America.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 October 1928, Page 9
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