Wo arc promised this year now airships. Commander Burney’s RIOO, winch, should take the air in September, is built to carry 100 passengers and cruise 3,200 miles at 75 miles an hour; but if ho can raise the required £7,000,000 of capital he intends to establish a transatlantic company, to operate a 48-hour service between England and North America, using an improved type of airship, capable of carrying 168 passengers and cruising 6,400 miles at SJS miles an hour On the England-Tndia-Australia route these new airships could do . the journey LondohBombayin 52 hours and Bombay-Fre-roantle in 48 hours., and lly from London to Fremantle in five days, . •*
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Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 10
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107Page 10 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 10
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