REGULAR AIR SERVICE
BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA PROPOSAL TO FORM STRONG COMPANY Rugby, January 11. A regular air service between Great Britain and America .is the object of a company which Commander Burney, M.P., is 'to form. His intention is to exercise through the Airship Guarantee Company an option to repurchase airship RlOO. ' Commander Burney left for New York to-day for financial discussions with American interests. The Burney-Rolls Royce RlOO, which is being constructed at Howden, Yorkshire, will have a full' speed of 80 and a cruising speed of 75. miles an hour, with endurance at cruising speed of 3200 miles, and accommodation for 100 passengers. It is proposed subsequently to construct five so-called Atlantic type craft, even larger and with greater speed, and twice as long endurance capacity, and . accommodation for IGB passengers each. Commander Burnev states that flights from London to North America will take 48 hours, and with the prevailing ' westerly winds 38 hours in the reverse ’direction. When the regular service is in operation berths will vary in cost from £BO to £l2O each He estimates that the company will require £7,000,000 capital,- but would not be floated until RlOO had made several satisfactory cross-Atlantic passenger flights. -British Official Wireless.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 9
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204REGULAR AIR SERVICE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 9
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