AIRSHIP Rl00
HANDED OVER TO AIR MINISTRY MORE POWERFUL THAN SISTER SHIP INITIAL FLIGHT THIS WEEK (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Rec. November 26, 7 p.m.) London, November 25. Airship RlOO has been officially handed over to the Air Ministry. She is described as the world’s fastest airship. Her engines develop 2000 more horse-power than those of RlOl and her dead weight lifting capacity Is twenty tons greater. It is also claimed that the different design has strengthened the metal skeleton. The initial flight will be made towards the weekend, with Major Scott In command.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 54, 27 November 1929, Page 11
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