SOVIET AIR FLEET.
GIANT NEW DIRIGIBLE. • MOSCOW. Soviet Russia's growing dirigible fleet will be augmented this winter by the U.S.S.R. V.-11, one and a half times larger than V.-0, which was the country's larpest airship before it crashed last February against a mountain top, with a loss of 1M lives. The new flagship of the Soviet dirigible fleet will have a volume <t£ over a million cubic feet. Its two motor* will give it a maximum speed of 80 miles per hour. . , According to the official announcement, the dirigible will serve to improve communication lietween the Rei* capital and the remotest regions of the U.S.S.R. One of the reasons for the rapid I growth of the Soviet dirigible fleet is the fac. that, despite the steady im- 1 provement of Russia's communications, there remain numerous economically important regions in the 11 Republics of the Soviet Union inaccessible to railroads, internal waterways, or even to aeroplanes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 142, 18 June 1938, Page 19
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