AVIATION.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19726, 17 September 1929, Page 11

AVIATION.

FLYING ACCIDENTS. NEW BRITISH AIRSHIPS. trials awaited with INTEREST. (C*ITBD PRIB9 ABSOCIATIOS—ST ELICT*IO TELEOBAPH COPYRIGHT.) (Received September 16th, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 15. The trials of tne new British airships are awaited with keen interest. The shed trials of boCH the State-built airship, 11101, and the privately-con-structed vessel, RIOO, are well advanced, and are still proceeding. Flying trials will be carried out equally thoroughly. It ts stated that it 101 will be tested in flight at Home tor about three months, and if these testa are successful, they will be followed by a flight to India with the Secretary for Air, Lord Thomson, as one of the passengers. The aeronautical correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states tnau there is no possibility of RlOl, which is an oil-burner, emerging before November. The weight of the engines and their fittings exceed the estimate by five tons and she has 1000 horse power less than was expected. She is riot likely to carry 100 passengers as was intended The petrol-burning RIOO will be ready in the middle of October, but will not venture into the tropics. Both far outstrip the Graf Zeppelin in structural ctrength. Although both vessels are of about the same capacity, and will be larger than any airship ever launched, they differ considerably in construction. The same crew will test both vessels. KIOO. which has been built at Howden, Yorkshire, will be brought to Cardinqton and moored to the mast erected there before the more important flight trials begin. Both vessels have, while undergoing shed tests during the past month, been air borne, or pnrtlv air borne.

The navigation problems of these 700 feet airships are being carefullv studied by speciallv selected officers and crews.-—A"«rtralian Press Association, Official Wireless.

FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED. VANCOUVER, September 15. Altogether 15 persons were killed in aeroplane accidents on Saturday afternoon. At. St. Catherine's, Ontario, a disaster occurred in which six were killed when a sight-seeing aeroplane crashed. At Chicago, Walter Mayers and Jack Cone left a private air field with two aeroplanes, Mayers with one woman passenger and Crone with two When joy-riding at an altitude of 1000 feet they collided, and all five were killed. At San Francisco, two friends, flying in a hired aeroplane fell into a residence and were burned in a fire which consumed both aeroplane and house. At Wichita, Kansas Helen Williams, a stenographer, fell 2000 feet before a great crowd at the airport. She leaped from an aeroplane to demonstrate the safety of a special parachute, which failed to open.—United Service.