AIRSHIP SERVICE.
IMPERIAL ROUTES. LONDON TO AUCKLAND IN NINE DAYS. by cable-press association—copyright. LONDON, Feb. 25. A revolution in air travel by which airships in the future will travel more safely, faster and can be moored to floating bases ie foreshadowed in an authoritative statement regarding the new 5,000,000 cubic feet airship being constructed by the Airship Guarantee Company for the Imperial airship route. ‘ -* The crew and passengers will be accommodated in the body of the craft instead of in outside cars,* thus enabling a very material increase in speed and a considerable'increase in flight range. It is expected that it will be possible to flv from England to Bagdad in two days, to Colombo in four days, to Fremantle in six and a half days, and to Auckland in nine days. .
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 February 1925, Page 5
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132AIRSHIP SERVICE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 February 1925, Page 5
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