New Britain herald., 1929-08-06
REFUELS AND PREPARES FOR
 ROUND WORLD TRIP
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 the leftng power of the Grafs hy- | portion.
 Our route will depend on weather conditions" Eckener explained. "t l would like to take the nor hern route l through Siberia and down the coast
 of Saghalen to Tokio, but we have | to follow the trans-Sib iberian railway. l That will be the most difficult part of OUT journey over Siberia to Japan.
 We have no maps and there are no radio stations and we must de- pend on big rivers for our positions. It is my desire that We avoid the i southern route because of the high altitude of it's deserts.
 An extra motor and a mechanic await us in case of need in Tokio. 1 From there we will strike across the
 Pacific, picking up the Aleutiun Islands to give our passengers some- i thing to look at and to enable us to check our position. We will strike the American coast near Seattle and go south to Los Angeles. Tt will be about $500 miles from Germany o Tokio but 1 cannot pre- dict the round world distance. Per
 haps 22.O0O miles would approximate
 our journey; it will depend upon weather conditions.
 We will return here September | ( de t,-iII Ia !! sooner.
 Cannot Get Helium Perhaps when we have our reg ular transatlantic service under way in two years we may have helium | for our ships but now we must use | hydrogen. Even in this land of un- | limited possibilities, it was inpos- sible Tor me to obtain hclium be- cause there is a government embargo i against it's export. But our snip is
 strong. We have had ships struck
 by liehtring without damage" 1 Eckener has not chosen his route across the United States. but naval officers said it was certain to be along southerly course from Los
 Angeles to Texas 10 the vicinity of
 Fort Worth. From 1here, Eckener would have two courses to choose | from.
 He might continue east 10 Bilm- ingham. turning north along a course between the mountains and the Atlantic or he could fly nolth- east from Texas through Oklahoma. Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio and Pennsylvania to Lallehurst, E,ckener said an effort would be made to An- able as many American cities as pos
 sible to view the craft. Detroit, where Henry Ford has nlooring mast, might be on the calling list.
 Mails for the Zeppelin were or
 dered closed al , o'clock today by he post office department.
 The freight for the return trip, while not as heavy as on the west
 ward trip, includes two automobile
 tires, two packages of films, a type writer, a book, q case of advertising material from a Cleveland firm a
 case of scientific instruments and a
 case of fly powder.
 S5OO,OOO For Load | The payload for the world trir is expected to bring $500,000, helf the cost of the airships construction. Of this IS passengers paying 5000 each, will bring S162. .G00. wbile mail and freight, which Dr. Eckener said are more profitable, will bring con- siderably more.
 While more than 100000 persons cd to J,o 01 etp !, tN
 view the huge air visitor, forlorr German baker ooy sat in the immi- grafton detention quarters at Glou- cester, N. J., and declared he was through with airships. He is Albert BusC hkow, the Zeppelin stowaway. now awaiting deportation.
 "The trip was wonderful. I was
 rot mistreated and was properly fed, although I didn't get much to drink.
 l missed the shower baths to which | l am accustomed. But the thrill is
 all over and I don't want to go
 through it again." he said.
 Dr. Eckener said the voyage
 around the world would be compar-
 atively safe. He said the greatest
 danger was from famine, in case the | ship was unable to land before her
 provisions were exhausted. He said
 tho worst part of the trip would be
 the first part of the flight from
 E'riedrichshafen to Tokyo as they
 might encounter clouds and rain
 while crossing lhe mountains of Si- 1 heria.
 Superintends Work Dr. Eckener superintendcd the
 pumping of 75 ,O00 cubic feet of gas i into the fuel storage of the Zeppelin and 53O0 GOO cubic feet of hydrogen
 gas into the balloonettes which fur nish the lifting power. The ship al- 1 so took on 3, 800 gallons of gasoline with which 10 start her five motors
 and HOO gallons of lubricating oil.
 Sailors patched and painted the
 few rents torn in the fabric of the ! ''cl,ip" hv thp winds on he Ee est wa rd