Having successfully completed exhaustive preliminary tests and trial flights, the giant aeroplane DoX which is at present moored in its! oating shed on Lake Constance, is ready to start on the first lap of its trans-Atlantic journey which, we ther permitting, is scheduled to begin to-morrow, Sanday morning, and which in approximately five hours will take the fying boat to Amsterdam, The course will be taken along the!
Rhine to give the plane an opportunity to go down in case of emergency. Apart from the crew of twelve with Captain Christiansen as} the chief pilot, the DoX will on this first part of the fight carry passengers only its designer Herr Claude Dornier and his brother! Maurice. "At Amsterdam between 40 and 50 passengers will come aboard for the second stage of the fight to Lisbon vid Southampton, Lo Havre and Vigo.
Tu the actual trans-Atlantic for which the plane carries a large jaunt of mail, only a few journal-will participate with most of the carrying capacity being used for fuel reserves amounting to 20 tons. At the Azores and Bermudas landings will be made-for refuelling. The fuel consumption per hour is or the twelve water-cooled Curtiss. motors aggregating 7,200 ately 400 gallons, giving the plane speed of 200 kilometres per hour.
Herr Dornier announced to-day that this fight was to be regarded a last thorough-going trial under all serta of conditions and that, should it prove satisfactory, a regular trans-Atlantic service with heavier-than-air raft will be organized next year by a German-
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