OCEAN AIRDROMES
ISLANDS TO BE ANCHORED IN ATLANTIC RESTAURANTS AND ALL (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Monday. The air correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle” says the first floating airdrome has been designed as a fuelling station for a transatlantic airplane service. It Is being built in America on behalf of an influential syndicate, which proposes to establish an air mail between America and Europe. A new System of deep-sea mooring has been devised, and the top of the island will be flexible, so that it may safely ride out the roughest weather. If the experiment is successful similar islands will be moored every few hundred miles between the United States and the west coast of Ireland. The first islands will he manned by a small crew, sufficient to refuel airplanes, but later there will be larger isands, with restaurants and sleeping rooms. A representative of the syndicate is now in Ireland in connection with the scheme to make Ireland the terminal port of all transatlantic air routes to Northern Europe.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 687, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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171OCEAN AIRDROMES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 687, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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