Not All Champagne and Iced Lager Beer

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 484, 13 October 1928, Page 9

Not All Champagne and Iced Lager Beer

Zeppelin Passengers Sick THE passengers on the Zeppelin LZI27 are not having the happiest time of their lives. They are exceedingly airsick —and at a time when 2,000 bottles of beer and 2,000 of champagne are ready for their use. The Zeppelin is making fair progress. (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service)

Reed. Noon. LONDON, Friday. A message from Ponta Del Gada states that the Zeppelin LZI27, which is flying from Germany to America, passed over Madeira at 1.35 p.m., Greenwich time, It sent a wireless message that it would pass the Azores to-night. The passengers ; are exceedingly air-sick. The Zeppelin’s time-table after Basle reads: Belfort, 9.45; Bron, near Lyons, 12.25; Montelimart, 2.4; Saintes Del Amer, 3.30; Barcelona, 6.50. Thereafter the messages are confused, but it is recalled that Dr. Eckener, before the start was made, expressly warned the public against anxiety if there was no news. There is some surprise that the Zeppelin is making the voyage during bad weather. It is known that Dr. Eckener admitted that the weather was dirty enough outside, but as he glanced at the airship he seemed full of confidence, and said he would go at all costs.

A Berlin message says the airship appears slower in progress than was expected. If the times are correct, it took five hours to do 150 miles from Barcelona to Castellow de la Plana, and then only five hours to do 410 miles from the latter place to Gibraltar, where it passed at five o’clock in the morning. It had previously wirelessed that it was hoped to pass the Azores ■ at two in the morning. In commenting on the flight of the Zeppelin LZI27 to America, the “Daily Chronicle” says it thinks the Atlantic crossing is not an ideal airship route. On the other hand it is peculiarly adapted for a combination of a steamer and an airplane. The ideal airship routes are to India and Australia, where the greater distances and the indirectness of the sea voyage will greatly increase the airship’s supremacy. The Empire has more to gain from

this, says the paper, than any other Country, and it ought already to have tackled the job. Major C. C. Turner, the aviation expert of the “Daily Telegraph,” in a message from Berlin, expresses his admiration for the efficiency and discipline shown in the delicate operation of starting the Zeppelin. The whole thing called for nerve and skill. The airship fitted her hangar almost like a glove. There were only a few inches between her envelope and the roof. The Zeppelin’s position at 7 o’clock Greenwich time was 37deg. 43min. north, by 33deg. 43min. west, which is west of the Azores. She passed southward of the Azores. The strong westerly wind is increasing, and there is some rain.