Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-06
GRAF WILL START
TO RIO ON MAY IS
Eckener Estimates South
American Round Trip viii
Require % Days.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, May
6.-When May Is dawns DR.. Hugo Eek
ener will lift the Graf Zeppelin into
the air here and begin the first trip
ever attempted between Europe and
South America by lighter-th an-air craft.
After stops at Rio de Janeiro and
Pernambuco, Brazil, DR.. Eckener will
turn the nose of the big ship northward.
She will visit Havana, then Lakehurst,
N. j., and then turn toward the Atlantic
again for Seville, Spain, where an an
Choir mast has been erected.
DR.. Eckener estimates that it will take
% days, including stops, to accomplish
this journey Of $4,000 miles. That Is a
little more than day longer than the
time consumed in the round-the-world
flight last Summer, when the time was
81 days, z hours, So minutes for the
fight of $4,000 miles.
Three or Four Days to Brazil.
After leaving Friedrichshafen May 10
the Graf will fly via Switzerland and
France to Seville, planning to arrive
there from 20 to "a hours after the
start. During the one-day stop the
passengers will be taken on q sight
seeing tour around the city and environs.
The Zeppelin will be fastened to q mast.
Should it remain in Seville overnight
the passengers will be put up in a hotel.
The stretch of about 1000 miles from
Seville to Pernambuco will, it Is esti-
mated, take three or four days. DR..
Eckener expects to fly along the Moroc-
can coast. possibly also via Madeira,
| then, weather and visibility permitting.
past the Canary Islands to the Cape
Verde Islands, over which mail is to be
dropped
The Atlantic then will be crossed
with the Graf heading for the Islands
of st. Paul and Fernando Noronha.. In
case the passage was a comparatively
good and easy one, no stop will be
made at Pernambuco. but the airship
will proceed directly to Rio Janeiro.
Others to Board Her at Rio.
At Rio, it is contemplated, some pas
sengers will disembark, while others
will take their places for the rest of
the fight, and mail will be unloaded
and taken on. The stop is to be brief
one. On the northbound voyage9a stop
Of two or three days will be made at
Pernambuco.
The ship will be fastened to a mast
taken there by one of the Friedrich
| shafen engineers, Ernst Bosch, who left
for Brazil in March, carrying with him
large assortment of Zeppelin spare
parts and the mooring mast. There, as
at Seville, the passengers will be ac-
commodated in hotels.
The next objective will be Havana,
which DR.. Eckener expects to reach
within about three days. Weather per-
| hitting, the passengers will be allowed
| to 60 sightseeing for day or so. Or, II
| conditions are especially favorable. the
Graf may give them a pleasure cruise
| over the West Indies and possibly
| Florida.
The flight from Havana to Lakehurst
| is expected to take about "a hours. The
| route will be either along the coast Of
Florida, to the Bermudas, or else d.
| rectly to the Bermudas, where mail Is
to be dropped.
After a stay of three days, the airship
will point its nose eastward and head
again for Seville, which. Dr. Eskener
figures. should be reached in three days.
The stop at Seville will be only long
enough to change passengers and mail.
and some "a hours later the commander
and crew of the Graf Zeppelin hope to
, be home again in Friedrichshafen.