THE BRITISH EXPERIMENTS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 300, 23 June 1909, Page 5

THE BRITISH EXPERIMENTS.

LONDON, yesterday. The London Parliamentary. "Aerial Defeheei!^imittee'"§t"ate''that an air"- r ship, of 227,500 cubic feet is approaching completion. They .nop© 'to "sail to Paris from Loiidon. -.•befdrer-'-'Mthe. -Parliamentary session concludes. ; - v . : . Tlie Committee lyive secured the option of purchase for the nation of two propellors and motors, , each 220 horse-power, "which aro estimated to. carry people a 700 miles journey with twenty-five j'assengei-s and a s2t>eecl i of 35.40 miles per hour. The Daily Mail offers £5000 towards building a garage to enable airships to remain in England until the test.