ATLANTIC AIR LINER.
SACRIFICE FOR LIGHT:. : i i BREAKDOWN PREDICTED. I
Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received June 29, 5.20 p.m.)
New York, June 28. In the Wanamaker airship, wherewith Lieutenant J. C. Porte hopes to cross the Atlantic, everything is being sacrificed to lightness. All the steel parte, including the propeller shaft, arc hollow.
Experts . predict that some of these parts, which wi]l bo called upon to work at a speed of 3900 revolutions a minute for 30 consecutive hours, arc sure to break down.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 156, 30 June 1914, Page 7
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86ATLANTIC AIR LINER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 156, 30 June 1914, Page 7
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