A BIG PROPOSAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1918, Page 3

A BIG PROPOSAL.

COMMKRCIAL AIRSHIP. f AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] LONDON, Dec. 22. A' great commercial airship has been planned. She will be 1,100 feet in length and will have a travel range of twenty thousand miles. She will be capable of cruising for sixteen days without descending. Her maximum speed will lie 95 miles an hour. The ship will he able to carry two. hundred tons ,inclusive of passengers and goods. She will fly comfortably and absolutely safely at an altitude of 1000 feet. Round the world trips are assured. Another airship is building, which will be seven hundred feet long, with a range of 9400 miles. Its speed will he 71 miles an hour and it will carry fifty tons. AIRSHIP EXTENSIONS. THEIR VALUE IN WAR. (Renter’s Telegram.) (Received This Day at 8.45 a.m.) LONDON December 21. The “Times” correspondent writes—(A British airship recently cruised ipr sixty one hours without a stop. Tt is no longer a secret that the Germans owed their escape at Jutland to a Zeppelin which also enabled tinflotilla bombarding Scarborough to escape. An airship is already planned with a capacity for ten million cubic feet or four times as large as the biggest Zeppelin. BY AIR TO NORTH POLE. NEW YORK PROPOSAL. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 23. The New York Aero Club of America announced to-night that an expedition to the North Pole will probably be made next June, by aeroplane. It is proposed that the expedition be headed by Captain Bartlett. HER FIRST ELY. Reuter’s Telegrams (Received this day at 12.25 p.m) “LONDON, Dec. 21. The airship announced will fly from Europe to America. She is the first of her sex to fly over London, and accomplished the feat on Friday. \