BRITISH AIRSHIPS.
THOROUGH FLYING TRIALS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 16. The trials of the new British airships—the State-built RlOl and the privately-constructed Rloo—are awaited with keen interest. Shed trials of both the 11101 and the RIOO are well advanced and are still proceeding. The ,flying trials will bo carried out equally thoroughly. It is stated that RlOl will be tested in flight at home for about three months, and if successful these tests will be followed by a flight to India with the Secretary of State for Air, Lord Thomson, as one of the passengers. The same crew will test both vessels. RIOO, which has been built at. Howden, Yorkshire, will be brought to Cardington and moored to the mast erected there before the more important flight trials begin. Both vessels, while undergoing shed tests during the past month, have been air-borne or partly air-borne. The navigation problems of these airships, which are 700 ft in length, are being carefully studied by specially-selected officers and crew.
Although both vessels are of about the same capacity, and will be larger than any airship ever launched, they differ considerably in construction.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 7
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190BRITISH AIRSHIPS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 7
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