AIRSHIP SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 27 April 1925, Page 10

AIRSHIP SERVICE.

BRITAIN TO NEW ZEALAND. SIX AND A-HALF DAYS' TRIP. (by cable— press association—coptkiqht.) (AUSTRALIAN AND K.Z. CABLE ASSn. (Deceived April 26th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 25.

Commander Burney, in a paper on "Tli© airship in aerial transport" read before tho Institution of Aeronautical Engineers, discussing the effect of tropical weather on an airship's life, said it would not be a serious matter because only three intermediate stations would need to be made on the England to New Zealand route. Subject to commercial considerations, these stopping places should, as nearly as possible, be upon the arc of a great circlo drawn between the two termini. It would be found that the most favourable positions would be Baghdad, Colombq and Fremantle or Perth. On such a route it should be possible, assuming the airship's maximum speed to bo ninety miles per hour, for an average of seventy miles to be maintained. Thus the time of flight would be:— England to Baghdad, 37 hours. Baghdad to Colombo, 41 hours. Colombo to Perth, 51 hours. Perth to Wellington 38 hours. Allowing for loss of time in refuelling at Baghdad and Colombo, the trip from England to Fremantle should he achievable in six and a half days.