NEW AIR SERVICE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17033, 5 May 1923, Page 2

NEW AIR SERVICE.

ZEPPLINS FOR ATLANTIC. By Telegraph—Praia Aseociation—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 3. The “Daily Chronicle ” gives details of the first airship to cross the Atlantic airway. The Zeppelins will operate between Seville and Buenos Ayres, where there will be terminal aerodromes, mooring masts, repair sheds and hydrogen factories. There will also be emergency landing grounds at the Canaries and C'erboda, in the Argentine. The American hangars will be made on the revolving principle, owing to the variability of the wind. Four Zeppelins will be built to inau ft urate the scheme, and trial flights will begin in the autumn. Each airship will be fitted with nine engines of 400 horse power, carrying fortv passengers ar.d eleven tons of mails and goods, in addition to the crew. There will be two flights weekly in each direction, the time taken in crossing the Atlantic being three days sixteen hours. The Zeppelins will have a speed of from eighty to ninety miles an hour. Each airship will carry six pilots and powerful wireless sets. Seville and Buenos Ayres will be linked up with London and Chicago by aeroplanes. There will be five cabins for eight people in addition to a saloon, kitchen, dining-room and bar. The airships will be lighted with electric lights developed by wind-driven dynamos.