FLIGHT TO CANADA

Hawera Star, Volume L, 30 July 1930, Page 5

FLIGHT TO CANADA

RIOO LEAVES CARDINGTON

BAD FLYING WEATHER OBJECTS OF THE TRIP. | •Uut'eiJ i i —B>' EUhcCXAo XeUtfrapD Lopyri£nt.> LONDON, July 29. The British airship RlllO took off for Alontreeal at 3.45 a.m. yesterday. Lieut.-Commander Burney said lie anticipated the voyage would be more comfortable than an Atlantic-liner. “If we can do the outward voyage, as we hope, in 60 hours and return in 50 it will prove we are getting on top of things,” lie said, “and the time is approaching when airships will be a commercial means of transport.”

He added that to his idea the airship of the future would have a displacement- double that of RIOO and would travel at 85 to 90 miles an hour cruising speed. They would then he able to guarantee a regular paying service across the Atlantic. With the departure of RIOO for Alontreal it- is announced bv the New York Weather Bureau that the dirigible is facing had flying weather with showers and adverse winds pi-evading in the eastern half of the ocean. The airship will meet clearing skies and moderate north-east winds west of 60 degrees west longitude as far as Nova Scotia,from which to Alontreal poor conditions will again be experienced. '