BIG BRITISH AIRSHIP.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19734, 26 September 1929, Page 9

BIG BRITISH AIRSHIP.

DOUBTS ABOUT SPEED. COIMKAMDfcit BUKNEY'S VIBW. (tSITB* j»ft««S SSSOMATIOK—EI ELBCT»IO *it«SlUplt -COPYRIGHT.) (Meeelred rJeptember 2oth. 7.10 p.m.) LONDON. September 34. tJoimriander Sir* D, i>. Burney declined to eoillrnejit on the prophecy that HMS OoWrniiietifc airship IMOI will ptiif% a disatotiointmefit. Ho expresses the opinion that it would l-e !«-iter to WUlt the results of the trials. His cohiV*W, Whieh is building the IUOI, is confident that she will exceed **" contract cpeed by ten miles per li'f.ir aiid the lifting contract by two to three tons

Ournineutihg on the suggestion that the British airship Kloo was already obsolete, Commander utiriiey said this was at variance with the statement of Dr. Hugo Kckener to the effect that he propOsr-d constructing a new airship of approximately the same shape that noutd al»o incorporate the passenger quarters With the hull.

The Air Ministry states that, for the assessment of the performances of RIOO and 11101, it is necessary to wait for the completion of the home-flying trials.—Australian Press Association.

HIOO is the world's largest airship. It is over 700 it from bow to stern, bikl weighs lot) Urns. It is driven by six ltolTs-ltoyee engines, developing 42DU horse-power, and is supposed to be able to fly to India from England in lour days, Canada m three days and to Australia within eight days. The six engines are housed in three power eggs, slung from the after portion of the airship so far from the passenger quarters that their roar is reduced by distance to a subdued murmur In these power eggs, the engines nnd dynnhlos'which supply the airship with light and neat tire also installed AeoOfrtmddatiOii for 100 passengers and a crew of 50 is provided in a huge structure consisting of four decks The lower deck, which projects below the airship, contains the control cabin, nlld abovo tliis bunks nnd living rooms for the crew are situated. The two upper decks are reserved for passengers, and art on a scale never before attefliptetl on any flying machine. There is a dining-room for 50 people, served from nn ftll-electric kitchen, two nnd fouf berth state-rooms, and batconies large enough for the 100 passengers to Sit at tea and watch the changing landscape below. As soon as official trials are completed, it is expected that RIOO will make a trans-Atlafitic flight as the preliminary to the development of still Greater airships. "We have already evolved means of handling the airship mechanically without the use of the usual 300 men," said Commander Sir C. I), Burney, managing director of the Airship Guarantee Corporation, builders of the ship, in a reont interview. "In addition new inventions, already in being, will double the load capacity, and after successful trials we could go ahead with th# building of a 9,000,000 cubic feet Ship which Would have a speed of 100 miles per hour and carry 200 passengers across the: Atlantic In 36 hours." tllOO has be«n constructed for the Air Ministry at Howden, Yorks., by the Airship Guarantee Corporation. After the trial flights the company mav exercise Its option to purchase the airship for «TH50,000. RIOI is being constructed by the Air Ministry at the Royal Airship Works, CJsrdlngton. , UNUSUAL ACCIDENT.

DANGER OF DUAL CONTROL

(Received September 25th, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 24. Tho clanger of the dual control aeroplane is revealed by an unusual accident, when one of the pilots fainted and fell forward on to the controls, thus canning th* Aeroplane to go into n shallow dive. The second pilot had iiHMtffldlnt tinw to rectify the matter and the machine crashed. The first pilot was fatally injured and the other seriously hurt.—AustralInn Press Association. FROM MOSCOW TO NEW YORK. * RUSSIAN AEROPLANE'S FLIGHT. (Received September 23th, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 24. The Russian aeroplane "Land of the Soviets," en route from Moscow to New York, landed at Dutch Harbour, TJnalaska, on Tuesday evening.—Australian Press Association, United Service. [Unalaika is a Dutch harbour in the Aleutian Islands which stretch tonguelike from Alaska Into the North Pacific, to separate it from Behring Boa.]