GERMANY’S GIANT AIRSHIPS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18554, 29 April 1930, Page 9

GERMANY’S GIANT AIRSHIPS.

Zeppelin Visits England

WARM WELCOME BY AIR FORCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 27. The Graf Zeppelin, which flew from her base at Friedrichshaven yesterday, arrived at Cardington at the appointed time, in the late afternoon. It made a beautiful landing and was moored for a short time on the Royal Air Force Aerodrome.

The Graf Zeppelin’s twenty-two passengers having disembarked, Dr Eckener, her commander, who had been in England for some days, went on board to gether with Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, and several other persons prominent in English aviation, who were passengers on the return flight to Friedrichshaven. There was great enthusiasm at Cardington, the officers of the first Zeppelin to visit England since the war being given a cordial welcome. During his visit to Cardington Dr Eckener boarded RIOO, which was riding at her mooring tower and inspected her sister airship RlOl, which is in her shed. Dr Eckener expressed keen interest in these vessels and remarked in an interview that in ship structure and nose mooring Germany represented an advance on other countries, and said that he believed that his model of a new mechanical transporter for taking a new airship into its shed was likely to be universally adopted. The Graf Zeppelin remained at Cardington only thirty-seven minutes and proceeded via London, Dover, Brussels and Hamburg to her base, which was reached at 5.42 this morning.