OCEAN AERODROME
MID-ATLANTIC STATION . GERMAN COMPANY’S PLANS.
LONDON, February 17
The Nord Deutscher Lloyd steamer
/jYegtfalen, which the Luft. Hansa j Company has converted as a- floating fuel station, will leave in March, after preliminary tests in the North Sea. says the Berlin correspondent of the “Times,” for a- point mid-way in. the South. Atlantic Ocean. It will act as a petrol supply ship in the centre of the 1800-mile stretch of water which aircraft carrying an economic load cannot cross in a single hop. The Westfalen is fitted with canvas landing stage,, on to which .an aeroplane will taxi. From here it will bb by a c-rane on to raiY,. Aftbi< "refuelling and repairing it will run down the rails f.nd be launched by a catapult.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1933, Page 6
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