GIANT AIRSHIP'S FATE
DISPOSED OF AS " SCRAP " Britain’s giant airship RIOO, which cost £500,000 to build, and which flew to Canada and back, has been sold tor scrap to Messrs Elton Levy Ltd., metal merchants. The airship’s disposal was one of the savings recommended by the National Economy Committee a few month ago. . , , -0100 u We Eave bought most of the iiIUU as she actually flew,” stated the purchasers, “ but such things as the gasbags, the engines, the fabric, and the wireless equipment are not included in the sale. As far as possible wo shall emplov local labour for the breaking up. What will happen to the metal we don’t know. Most _of it is duralumin, which has a limited application, mainly for aeroplane construction. The only parts we shall not destroy are the aluminium tanks. These should find a good sale intact.” At one time the RIOO vyas the largest airship in the world. Built at Howden, Yorks, she did not fly again after the crash of her sister ship, RlOl. She had a capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet, compared with 6,500,000 cubic feet of the United States airship Akron.
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Evening Star, Issue 20999, 13 January 1932, Page 11
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191GIANT AIRSHIP'S FATE Evening Star, Issue 20999, 13 January 1932, Page 11
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