Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
OCEAN D|R|G|BLE
PLAN FINANCED
Feats of Huge Airships Spur
Capital to Institute Over
seas Service.

NEW YORK R).-The giant flying
fish known as dirigibles have loosened
the purses of the worlds great bankers.
An era when both dirigibles and
heavier-than-air craft will soar across
the Atlantic and Pacific, carrying pas
sengers, mail and freight between the
United States, Europe and Asia, Is Ella
visioned as American, British and Ser
man capital combine with aviation in
terests on a wide scale.
Within few weeks after the c2rclu-
sion of the globe girdling cruise of the
Graf Zeppelin the International zeppe-
lin Transport Co. and the Pacific Yep
pelin Transport Co. have been formed
in this country.
New YOrk-London Line Planned.
Plans of the International, backed by
the National City Bank, Americas
largest financial institution, are under
stood to encompass a passenger line
linking New York and London.
The Pacific corporation, Of which the
Lehman Bros, Hartman g. Co. and
other New York financial interests are
the organizers, has announced pro-
jected 36-hour service between Cali
fornia and the Hawaiian Islands. That
line is planned ultimately to extend to
the Philippines and Japan,
The announcement Of the Pacific cor
poration is the first definite step toward
coupling the United States with the
Orient by air.
Establishment of transatlantic service
has received impetus from several re-
cent aviation events, beginning with the
Graf zeppelin's exploits.
Great Britain, whose R-34 was the
first to cross the Atlantic, is ambitious
to regain its prestige with its R-100
and R-101. Surprising the Graf in
size, capacity and righteousness of ap-
pointments for the comfort Of paSscn-
gers, those dirigibleS now are being
grcomed for long flights, one to America
and the other. to Egypt.
Comdr. D. r. Burney Of the Airship
Guarantee Co., builder of the R-100,
hopes eventually to have feet Of six
ships on regular transatlantic sched-
ule. Months ago Burney said he had
been assured Of sufficient capital.
New Giant Is Contemplated.
The Zeppelin works in Germany,
which produced the Graf, Los Angeles
and other monarchS of the air, Is I'M
derstood to be proceeding with the con-
struction of another that will surpasS
the British R-100.
American rights in the Zeppelin Co.
are vested In the Goodyear-Zeppelin
for the United States that will be the
largest in existence. At Akron. Ohio,
the ring for one of them, the ZRS-4,
was laid October 81.
The company also is preparing to un-
dertAke mail and passenger transport
to Honolulu and South American cities
by dirigible. Its dock at Akron, con-
sisting of extensive facilities for moor
ing, housing and caring in general for
the ships, is to provide a great inland
port for dirigibles.
p. w. Chapman, operator of the
United States Lines. is planning expert
ments the ultimate objective of which
is the establishment of transcontinen-
tai and transatlantic air service.
The success of the German built Dor
nier DO-X airplane in its initial flight
with 1859 passengers has given addi-
tional confidence to those who believe
heayier-than-air machines will prove
more practicable than dirigibles for long
flights.
Dorniers are expected to be placed in
international service through a COM
Motors and Fokker corporations.
Plan Series Of Seadromes.
A step which Edward r. Armstrong,
aeronautical engineer, believes will make
transatlantic airplane passenger service
feasible in the comparatively near flu
ture is the construction Of q series OF
seedromes in the Atlantic.
The first of these seadromes will be
stationed $50 miles OF New York on
the route to Bermuda. Eight are plan
ned for a proposed route between New
York and Europe by way Of the Azores.
The seadromes are floating islands
with ample facilities to care for air.
planes and their passengers, the latter
\ In hotel.