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PROGRESS OF AVIATION

SERVICE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC NEW ZEALANDER’S PREDICTION Dominion Special Service. Auckland, February 27. A New Zealander who has distinguished himself in the field of aeronautical research, Mr. H. F. Parker, an old Nelson. College and Canterbury College boy, arrived from Vancouver by the Niagara to-day. As the result of Mr. Parker’s researches, helium instead of hydrogen was adopted by the United States Navy Department for inflating airships and dirig bles. He discovered what is known as the water recovery apparatus, which recovers water from air and is burned with a petrol mixture, thus keeping airships at a constant weight and doing away with the necessity for having to allow valuable gases to escape. Leaving Canterbury College in 1915, Mr. Parker went on active service and was engaged as a pilot with the Royal Air Force. He received injuries as the result of a crash in 1916, and on being invalided home interested himself in aeronautical engineering. On completing his water discovery apparatus he took it to England and America, and it was adopted in America Since then he have made his home in the United States, doing a considerable amount of work for the United States Government and is at present on a short holiday visit, to the Dominion. Speaking of flying generally in the United States, Mr. Parker said he was convinced the day was not very far distant when there would be a regular mail and passenger air service across the Atlantic. He believed the service would lie an airship one, because airships were more economical for that purpose. In a long flight across the Atlantic aeroplanes did not have much margin and carried a great amount of petrol to get them across. Consequently the number of passengers and quantity of mail would be very limited. “Commander Burney, a British pilot, is expected to make the journey across the Atlantic in one of the new British airships within the next few months,’’ stated Mr. Parker. “I met him recently in America, where he is endeavouring to form a company so that a regular service might be operated. With (he service operating he expects to carry 100 passengers and 10 tons of mail, the journey to occupy about two days.’’

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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 10

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PROGRESS OF AVIATION Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 10

PROGRESS OF AVIATION Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 10

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