The Archive · 1930

DORNIER 'PLANE TO FLY ATLANTIC

Friedrichshafen, June 28, The world's largest air liner, the twelveengined Dornier seaplane "Do X," having been equipped with flew motors after last year's sensa-the tional trial flights, is now ing prepared for a number of cruises over the North Sea including flights to 'Southampton and Oslo preparatory to next month's trans-Atlantic flight in three hops, from' Cadiz to the Azores, Bermuda and New York. With an estimated cruising speed of between 110 and 120 miles per hour it would take nine hours to the Azores, twenty more to Bermuda and eight to New York. The intermediary landings will be necessary on account of the enormous fuel consumption of the huge liner which amounts to over a ton Per hour. Although the seaplane can accommodate as many as 170 people and actually carried such a }big number on some of the trial fights last year, only a fow passen; ers will be taken on the first trans-'Atlantic ight and it is reported that an American millionaire has offered £4,000 for the: privilege of being the' only passenger.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,

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