GIANTS OF THE AIR

Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 April 1930, Page 5

GIANTS OF THE AIR

GERMAN AND BRITISH AT CARLINGTON TO-DAY SIXTH FLIGHT OF THE RIOO (.mm.su umeud ivitaess-l RUGBY, April 2i3. two of me biggest, ai'usuips in fine would, tiie xmtiatn RiOu ana the German Grat Zeppelin, will probably be been siae by side at. (Jardington, near oediorcl, on Saturday. Tiie /.epyeiin is coming to Oaiiauigton to pick up JUr. Ec-kenor, her commaiKifer, who arrived in Ji-ngiaiia today from America. She wifi arrive on Saturdav afternoon and stay about an hour. A large party, numbering 6UO or iOO men, drawn mainly from, the Loyal Air Force, wdii handle the- Zeppelin. to the mooring mast. ■The RIOO will be brought from her shed to the mooring mast to-night, it weather conditions are suitable, and may make a ten or twelve hours’ flight to-morrow. Once she has been brought out it is not likeny that the RIOO will return to her shed until after her tap across the Atlantic to Canada next month. Now engines) of a later typo have recently been fitted in the RltX), and these as well as the envelope and wireless installation will be J-inder special observation during the night. This will be the sixth fimht of the RIOO, and probably there will do others before she leaves for Canada The course for to-morrow’s flight will be decided according to the direction of the wind.

CO-OPERATION IN AIRSHIP TRAVEL. APPEAL BY DR. EOKENESR. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, April 24. Dr Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin, had a long talk with the Duke of York at York House this afternoon. In the evening Dr. Eokener wirelessly broadcast an appeal for international co-operation in airship travel. He said he was convinced that in the ture there would be aiixships_ flying regularly over every ocean. Ihe nation® ought to combme _ m providing landing fuelling and pick-up places. His high regard for the English made him most anxious for British tion in the establishment of an international airship service.