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Show To Fly Across the Ocean. Berlin. It has now been arranged that the dirigible balloon trip across the Atlantic which is projected by Joseph Jos-eph Erucker will start from here for Teneriffe on May 15, 1910. The balloon, which will have Vancouver, B. C, as its objective point, is being constructed at Hamburg. It will be semi-circular, will be of 5,000 cubic feet dimensions and will have two fifty-horsepower motors. mo-tors. It will carry six persons, all of them engineers. The first stage of the voyage is expected to take four days. The balloon will have the benefit of the trade winds most of the way. Two steamers will accompany the "balloon, but they will sail two days ahead of the airship. |