FLOATING ISLANDS
REFUELLING STATIONS
Australian Press Association.
:■■-■•■ •■; LONDON^ 11th June. The "Daily Chronicle's" air correspondent says the / first floating aerodrome designed as a fuelling station for the trans-Atlantic : aeroplane service is being built in America on behalf of an influential syndicate, 1 which proposes to establish .an : air mail between America and Europe. " A new syßtem of deep-sea mooring, has - been devised, and the top of the island will be flexible and so safely ride but : the \ roughest weather. If the experiment is successful, similar islands will,be moored every few hundred miles between the United States and the West Coast of Iceland. The first islands will be manned by. a small crew* sufficient to refuel, aeroplanes, but later larger islands with restaurants and rooms' will be established.: .A! representative of the syndicate is'nbw in Ire-' land in connection with a scheme to" make Ireland the terminal point of all trans-Atlantic air routes to Northern Europe. .. . ■ - '-
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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155FLOATING ISLANDS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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