GIANT FLYINGSHIP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 119, 23 May 1932, Page 7

GIANT FLYINGSHIP

DO-X LEAVES TOR AZORES Received Mav 22. 7.15 p.m. ST. JOHN’S, May 21. The German air liner Do.-X left Holyrood Harbour at 3 a.m. for the Azores. Four hours later she was 300 miles east-south-east of Cape Race. The Do-X is on her return flight to Lake Constance. Switzerland. She arrived at Now York last August with a crew of 14 on board. The “flying ship,” as the German? term the giant flying-boat, has remained in New York since her arrival in August, 1931, after a trip from Switzerland via Rio dp Janeiro. The return of the Do-X to Europe, follows the failure of the Dornier interests to ('barter or sell the machine in the United States, it was said recently. Lack of suitable hangars and the enormous expense of J keeping the ship in repair in outdoor storage was given ns one of the chief reasons for the refusal of the American air transport industry to make a reasonable attempt to use the boat on some of the air routes over waler where traffic justifies so big a craft. The twelve engines of the aircraft have been stepped up in power from GOO to more than 650 horse-power each. Part of the infernal bracings of the boat, structure have been strengthened to permit greater load concentration necessitated bv fuel storage for long flights. The course to be followed by Captain Friedrich Christiansen and his crow has been tentatively set via Newfoundland, the Azores, and Portugal, and will closely follow the air trail blazed in 1919 bv Commander Reid of the crew of the firing boat NC-4 of the United States Navy.