R 34's FLIGHT

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13932, 10 July 1919, Page 2

R 34's FLIGHT

Very Comfortable Voyage (A. and N.Z. Cable.) NEW 'YORK, Joily 7 The New York Times Mineola corresp'ondenifc writes that the official log of the R3i4 show® that the Moyage was qulite 00-m^orDable. The men worked shifts of four hours, and slept for -four hours. Meats composed the chief part of thei diet, aVthoiuigh the men had wiarm drinks prepared by a special cooker. . "The breakfast consisted of hardboiled eggs, bread and butter, and ■hob tea; luncheoni, wld meats and' chocolate water; tea consisted! of | bread and butter, and' gremgage I jam, cake and hot tea. The dm- ' ncr was composed of. meats, tea, ■ i amd bread arid 1 * butter. Music dur--1 ing Ithe meals was* supplied- by a I grpaimaiphone. The men isiepifc in sleeping bags in hammocks. The dirigible was .equipped with ! a wireless directional' indicator with ! a 300-mileiSi radius, a wireless with !a 1200-mile radiusi, arid a telephone, ' with 100 tailes radius. j Tibe airship . sometimes badly bumped into sharp winds -and , storms, but oni the whole remained on a.n even keel. ;