FLIGHT TO CANADA
BRITISH AIRSHIP RIOO
DEPARTURE NOT YET FIXED
/ British Official Wireless. (Received 19 th' May, 11 a.m.)
BUGBY, 18th , May.
Arrangements are well advanced for the experimental flight of tho Air Ministry's airship 8100 to Canada and back. The date of the vessel's departure has not yet been fixed, buj; an announcement is expected within the next few days after the airship has carried ont satisfactorily a further test ilight. Flight-Commander Atherstone, first officer of tho, sister airship, 11101, sailed yesterday for Canada with ton engineers and riggers and ono wireless operator to form a relief crew, for tho IUOO at Monti-en].
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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104FLIGHT TO CANADA Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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