AIR TRAVEL
10 HBO II TO INDIA.
THE BURNEY SCHEME,
SHIPS DESCRIBED,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, July 22. (Received July 23, at 9.15 a.m.)
Tho Burney airships will be employed in services to India and Australia. Hugo machines of a new pattern, capable of carrying 150 passengers, at an average speed of eighty miles an hour, will be able to make a continuous flight of more than five days. Tho first should bo built within eight months. The first stage will be to India, bringing it within sixty-eight hours of London, and shortening the delivery of Australian mails by ten days. Egypt will be reached in thirty-one hours. Each machine will harm a capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet. The length will be 760 ft. There will bo single-berth sleeping cabins for all the passengers, each with a separate entrance from the keel gangway. The saloon will accommodate sixty persons and tho dining room thirty persons.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18334, 23 July 1923, Page 6
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