AIR SERVICES
ZEPPELINS TO RESUME OPERATIONS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 5, 7.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 4. The German Zeppelin Company announces that it is resuming in June, the North Atlantic airship service, halted last May by the burning of the Hindenburg. A Helium-filled sistership, LZI3O, will make eighteen round trips in 1938, and a larger LZI3I will be ready by 1939. The service will compete with the flying boats of the Imperial Airways and the Pan-American Airways. The dirigible requires two and a half days westward crossing, and two for the eastward.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20928, 6 January 1938, Page 7
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96AIR SERVICES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20928, 6 January 1938, Page 7
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