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Show PLAN DIRIGIBLE SERVICE HH BETWEEN AKRON AND DETROIT ffH (By International News Service.) ll AKRON, Ohio Daily round trips UH between Detroit and "Akron are to be made by a huge dirigible beginning This mammoth airship is to carry IH mail, express, freight and passengers. The trip to Detroit, a distance of 150 miles by air line, is to be made in three hours. The dirig-ible is a French ship of the Chalais-Maud6n typo and was purchas-cd purchas-cd from the United States government by a local tire and rubber company. IH The big air ship is twice as large lH as any dirigible ever assembled here. IH Its capacity is 320,000 cubic feet, and IH it is 260 feet long; an enclosed cabin IH is 45 feet long, and, while built to UH cany from 30 to 35 persons, only 20 Bl persons will be carried on long trip3. Twin motors, each 250 horsepower, Ll will permit the ship to make 55 miles iBJ an hour. Four men comprise the i crew. I |