CONQUEST OF THE AIR
SERVICES TO AUSTRALIA AND INDIA. THE BURNEY SCHEME. LONDON, May 27. The Sunday Express says there is every prospect of Lieut. Commander Burney’s scheme regarding an airship service to Australia being accepted by the British Government during the coming week. Lieutenant Burney expects to start operations about this time next year with a bi-weekly passenger service from London to Bombay, and later in summer of 1924 he will start a weekly service to Perth. The airship will have two passenger decks, connected by a lift, one containing the living quarters and the other where passeagers can take air. There will be sheds at the termini, and at Port Said and at other stations en route giant towers will be constructed, to which the airships will be attached so that they may turn with the prevailing wind. Passengers will embark and disembark by a lift running through the centre of the towers.
The motive power of the airships will be a non-inflammable mixture of kerosene and hydrogen.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18791, 29 May 1923, Page 5
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