FOR ARCTIC TRIP?
REPORTED CHARTER GERMANY JUBILANT Reed. 10 a.m. BERLIN, Tuesday. It is reported that the Graf Zeppelin has been chartered for an Arctic trip in 1929. The public in Germany are jubilant over the success of the Zeppelin’s flight. Nevertheless, aviation experts are awaiting the tests of the two British airships before giving a final verdict as to the practicability of airships for regular passenger work. They consider the Zeppelin’s flight a fine feat but say it demonstrated that the risks are too great and that airships ore still too susceptible to weather conditions which have little or no effect on heavier-than-air machines. The test flights of the two British airships next year therefore will be awaited with great interest in Germany. They will settle the controversy regarding the usefulness of the dirigible, compared with the flyingboat, such as Ae huge one the Dornier Company is building. This is to carry 50 passengers and be capable of flying 3,000 miles non-stop.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 487, 17 October 1928, Page 11
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163FOR ARCTIC TRIP? Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 487, 17 October 1928, Page 11
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