BUILDING IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 9

BUILDING IN BRITAIN

PROSPECTIVE FLIGHTS VISIT TO DOMINIONS (United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 9th January, 8 a.m.) I LONDON, 6th January. Full of the optimism of the Air Mission which has returned from Australia and New Zealand, the Air Ministry has decided to go ahead at the earliest possible moment with demonstration flights immediately the two airships are available. It is expected that the first available will be 8100, which is being built by contract by Admiral Burncy's company, probably late in 1929. In view of the fact that the engines arc petrol-driven, the Ministry prefers that the demonstration should take place under normal, equable climatic and atmospheric conditions. It has therefore decided that the first demonstration will be to Canada, probably in the Canadian autumn of 1931, and thereafter there will be another demonstration to India. The second airship, 8101, building at the Air Ministry's works at Cardington, will probably be ready early in 1930. This airship is fuelled with heavy oil, and therefore better suited to cold, and to sub-tropical and tropical climates encountered between Britain and the Cape. The first trip of KlOl will be limited to the Cape and the second to Perth via the Cape. It is proposed to date the trip when favourable winds will enable the airship to utilise only two out of her five engines between the Cape and Australia. It is also proposed to return via Ceylon, when there are favouring winds over the Indian Ocean to Ceylon and Egypt, which the Air Ministry prophesies will probably become one of the world's greatest air ports.