GIRDLING THE GLOBE.
GRAF ZEPPELIN TO VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. TWENTY THOUSAND MILES IN 23 DAYS NON-STOP FLIGHT TO JAPAN. (Received Thursday, 9.30 p.m.) BERLIN, July 3. Starting before mid-August Herr Eckener intends to navigate the Graf Zeppelin round the world in fourteen days’ flying time, leaving approximately nine days for refuelling and receptions. He is taking twenty passengers. The total flying distance will be twenty thousand miles and the longest non-stop flight will be between Friedrichshaven and Tokio, 6,500 miles. Thence the airship will proceed to San Diego, Lakehurst, Friedrichshaven, making four giant stages. A route via North Hawaii ■will be followed across the Pacific Ocean.—(Australian Press Association.)
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Wairarapa Age, 5 July 1929, Page 5
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