LONG TEST FLIGHT
RIOO RETURNS TO MAST
CANADIAN TRIP DEFERRED
British Official Wireless. (Bcccived 23rd May, 11 a.m.)
KUGBT, 22nd May
The airship RIOO, which left Cardington last evening, was in the air throughout tho uiglit and did not return to her mooring mast until this afternoon. It .was anticipated that the vessel, on the satisfactory completion oi! this flight, during which a series of tosts had been carried out, would almost imediatoly sail for Canada. In response to tho request of tire Canadian Department of Defence, however, the departure has been delayed. The Air Minister has been requested to arrange that 8100 may arrive in Canada after the close of the Parliamentary session at the end of May, so that Ministers and _ others may officially receive the airship on her arrival at Montreal.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 9
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134LONG TEST FLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 9
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