HAS LOST FAITH.
Air Pioneer’s Comment on Airship Disaster. NOT BAD WEATHER CRAFT. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 14, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 13. Lieutenant - Colonel J. T. MooreBrabazon, M.P., commenting on the Macon disaster, said: “Since the RlOl disaster, I have abandoned faith in big airships. They are not things to be taken up in bad weather. The Zeppelin school of construction has been successful, but everybody else has
been singularly unsuccessful. Everybody seems to try to improve upon Dr Eckener’s products. Why they fail it is difficult to determine.” ' Commander Dennistoun Burney, British airship expert, interviewed regarding the Macon disaster, said that the use of airships had been justified by developments in design and construction and was worth persevering with. “ Take the example of the Graf Zeppelin, which has crossed the Atlantic ninety times without any trouble,” he said.
Lieutenant-Colonel Moore-Brabazon is a pioneer in the flying world and is an expert in the technical phases of aviation.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20539, 14 February 1935, Page 1
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162HAS LOST FAITH. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20539, 14 February 1935, Page 1
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