NEW BRITISH AIRSHIP
OFFICIAL VISIT PAD) TRIALS DUE SHORTLY British Official Wireless. (Received 6th July, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, sth July. , ' Many members of Parliament and th» Dominion High Commissioners to-day; visited the new British 5,000,000 cubio, feet airship 8.100 at Howden , aerodrome, Yorkshire; The airship is as largo; as any Atlantic liner, and is fitted with' .'wide carpeted staircases, dining-rooms,-and a lounge furnished like a hotel. Its six Rolls-Royce Condor engines were given a prolonged „test yesterday and to-day and, when other trials are passed, the airship will emerge, from its huge hangar and fly to Cardlngtoa' air station, where it will be attached to. a specially-erected mooring mast. Probably in the autumn it will fly to Caniida, when it is expected Captain Scott* who has flown th© Atlantic each wajj by airship, will command.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1928, Page 9
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