RADIO IN ZEPPELINS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 7, 2 September 1927, Page 12

RADIO IN ZEPPELINS

Plans for ute installation of trans. Atlantic air service by diriibles next year have been made. It is proposed to operate between Seville, Spain, and Bucnos Ayres, Argentina, a super-Zep-pelin 675 feet loug and 96 feet in diameter, with the conveniences of an ccean Jiner; and thereby cut the time of the voyage from seventeen days to three. Radio communication, of course, will be maintained continuously during the voyages. ‘The capacity of the aerial vessel will be twenty-five passengers; and their quarters will have even a dance floor, Music, by radio, will be provided iniernationally, from New York, Paris ot Berlin, as desired, and the trip will be a round of pleasure. Later the establishment of a similar service to cover a route Letween New York and the Continent will be attempted,