Evening star., 1924-11-25
DESIGNER OF zR-3
TO BUILD IN i. S.
Or. Arnstein Predicts Great
Fleet of Commercial
Aircraft.
Ev the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK November 25-Dr
Kari Arnstein, designer of the ZR-3,
arrived on the George Washington
yesterday with staff Of IL engi-
ncers.
They viii go at once to Akron,
Ohio TO begin constructing. in the
name of the Goodyear Zeppelin Cor
poration, huge commercial dirigibles
Tor passenger and mall service, do
nestle and transatlantic.
Il am certain that the lighter
than-air craft. industry of the world
will be centered in America" said Or
.trist"in. You have, here all the
best conditions for djrigihIe manufac-
ture--capitaf, engineering talent and
favorable public spirit. ! hope to
make America my home forever"
A mild-mannered man -of 81 years,
l'r. Arnstein smilingly spoke of great
fleets of helium- filled gas bags which
an the near future will get the cream
of the passenger and mail business
Of the world.
For 10 years his was the business
OF designing the succession of war
and peace Zeppelins turned loose upon
the air at Friedrichshafen, on Lake
constance. and of accompanying them
on trial flights. lie designed the i'll
fatcd French record -hreaker Dix
Sheuandoah and the newest record
holder, ZR-3. With the Friedrich
s.hafen works about to be dismantled
in accordance with the Versailles
treaty, he comes here as the tech
nical brains of an industry being
transferred to America for perpetua-
tion.
Regret for Inventor.
at is wonderful that America gives
us this opportunity TO continue de-
veloping the Zeppelin-t type airShip."
hs said. My only regret is that
Count Zeppelin was not alive to see
the realization of his dream-the
fight of one of his dirigibles across
the Atlantic as accomplished by the
ZR-3.
THE future? 1t is filled with i'm
portant possibilities. L say that
am no dreamer, but ! say also that
we probably will begin at once to
design at Akron an airship of
100000 cubic feet capacity. which
will fly from Spain to South America,
thus crossing the Atlantic at its
widest reach.
Regular transatlantic air service
between America and Europe seems
assured. We do not venture to say
how large dirigibles eventually may
lie built.
we believe they will be used
primarily for fast mail and passen-
gers with whom speed is of great
Importance. We believe that from
the standpoint of economical opera
ton the smallest airships Will aC-
commodate about SO passengers. Not
a great increase in flying speed is
anticipated. Probably three days for
transatlantic passage will be the
normal flying time.
DIR. Arnstein considers the trans
continental demonstration fight of
the Shenandoah very important and
very interesting, chiefly because it
demonstrated the practicability of
the American mooring mast and the
American condenser for preserving
ballast" He thinks the flight all the
more remarkable because there ap-
parently was no attempt to dodge
unfavorable weather" -
Faith I'm Helium.
Although DR.. Arnstein said that of
nearly 100, airships constructed at
the Zeppelin works none was known
to have been destroyed by explosion
of hydrogen gas, he believed that the
greater safety guaranteed by the use
of non-explosive helium would make
the dirigible far more popular as a
means of public transit
Ii, however, there are to be de-
Heloped whole fleets of American
made airships. facilities for manu-
featuring helium must be vastly en-
larged, he said. He was convinced
that the future of the dirigible rested
largely upon enlarged sources of
helium supply and upon cheaper meth
DDS of its production. -