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...nearly a year Germany's Luft Hansa air lines have been experimenting with a converted freight steamer, the S. S. Westphalen, as a mid-ocean station for airplanes (TIME, May 15). Last week a flying boat crossed from Africa to Brazil, via the Westphalen, in the latter's first dress rehearsal...
...flying boat was a twin-motored Dornier Wal* named Monsoon, of the type which Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau thrice flew from Germany to the U. S. Carrying a crew of four and a Luft Hansa director, the Monsoon flew up from British Gambia, headed west by south, caught the radio beacon of the Westphalen. Smack on her course after six hours the Monsoon picked up the floating airdrome in the middle of the Atlantic. Unlike an aircraft carrier, or a huge mid-ocean landing field such as the U. S. Public Works Administration has been asked to finance...
...Alps, to Wismar Bay on the Baltic. The Lake Constance site, where the Zeppelin works also is situated, is too far from the sea for efficient testing and servicing of seaplanes. At Wismar Bay the new Dornier plant will be handily near an important base of Luft Hansa...
...knows well. But what route? How soon? What sort of schedule?-are questions not even he can answer. Politics plays a heavy part since any transoceanic line requires entree to the ports of at least two nations, probably more. Moreover, Britain's Imperial Airways, Germany's Luft Hansa, France's Aeropostale, Holland's K. L. M., all have bid for a part in any prospective service. Since the surveying job is bigger than any single agency could afford, all interested parties have agreed to pool their findings. Thus into the pot go the charts made...
Miss Lloyd and Miss von Hansa had another lively set-to for second place, which went to Miss Lloyd, 5-4 again, after more than five minutes of brilliant fencing to decide the last point...