TRANSATLANTIC FLYING
GERMAN ENTERPRISE By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright BERLIN, Monday. The enthusiasm which Germany is displaying in her bid to be prominent in Transatlantic flying is evidenced by the proposa l of the Hamburg-Am erica Steamship Line to inaugurate an airship service to New York. The company has placed an order for what will be the largest and most powerful flying-boat in the world. This is to be delivered in December. The new dirigible is to be /equipped with 10 motors, each of 1,000 horsepower. It will carry 170 passengers and their luggage.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 120, 11 August 1927, Page 15
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