The Kusko times., 1929-11-30
HUGE NEW AIRsHlps TO BE BIGGER. AND, BETTER THAN
 THE GREAT GRAF ZEPPELIN

making It's record-breaking flight around the world, workers at the great Goodyear Zeppelin plant here here were .gsing steadily ahead with plans fur two dirigibles that will be even larger than the mighty German air line ar the great hangar now being erected for their construction hears completion.
 In addition, executives of the same plant are now working on plans for twoqcommercia dirigibles which will be even arger than the pair now un- der contract, which are being built for the United States navy.
 These commercial airships, under . plans that are now being matured, will be used in trans-oceanic passen- ger and mail service. It is tentative ly planned to put them on a regular schedule between Los Angeles and Hawaii, and Commander Jerome c. HHunsaeker,x vice president of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, is now in Honolulu in the interests of the proposed line, and making plans for establishing dirigible base in the island cty.
 These developments, coming at the height of the Graf Zeppelin's amaz- ing feat, indicate that America is about to assume unquestioned leader ship in the lighter-than-air field of aviation.
 In addition to the Pacific line to Hawaii, Goodyear Zeppelin officials are known to be studying the estab- lishment of a trans Atlantic service with other huge airships. The enor- nous Akron hangars erected for building the navy ships probably will be maintained for use as reserve airport where trans-oceanic Zeppe- lin could dock where weather condi- lions along the Atlantic seaboard were unfavorable. .eszkz.
 Huge and modern as the Graf Zep- pelin is, t will be outclassed by the United States navy dirigibles.
 The Graf Zeppelin is 766 feet long, 113 feet high, and has a capacity of S,707,970 cubic feet.
 Each of the navy dirigibles will be 7S0 feet long, 142 feet high, and will have capacity of 6,500,000 cubic feet--nearly twice that of the Ger man liner.
 When the nnavy dirigibles take the air the familiar gondolas that line the hulls of alll other big dirigibles to house engines and propellers be gone. Engines will be inside the envelope; cnly the propellers will emerge, on extended brackets. Below, living quarters will similarly be enclosed in the envelope. Nyth:ng will project outside the skin, iron. stem to saern, except the control car which must necessarily have observation ~ln- dows.
 This represents one of the les sons taught by the wreck of the navy's Shenandoah in 1925.
 The Shenandoah, caught in cy- clone over Ohio, broke in half. Parts of the ship that hung below the en- velope broke off and fell and the oc- cupans were killed. Officers and mem- bers of the crew who were inside the envelope at the time of the disaster, however, came down safely, as the broken portions oft he envelope, still containing gas in their numerous cells, drifted slowly to earth.
 One of the most striking features of each new ship vii be the presence inside the envelope of a complete air plane hangar. Each ship will carry two scouting planes, so devised that they can be launched and taken about while the dirigible is in flight. The cruising range of each dirigble, mci- dentally, will be approximately 5000 miles, without refueing.
 Naturally, all of these new features