BRITAIN’S AIRSHIPS
RlOO COING TO CANADA. TRIP TO INDIA FOR RlOl. [British Official Wireless.] Rugby, June 27. The airship RlOl, which will take part in a rehearsal to-day at Hendon, left the mooring mast at Cardington this morning and before proceeding to Hendon made a flight over the home counties Her manoeuvres over London attracted much attention. Lord Thomson, Air Minister, stated at the Imperial Press Conference today that airship RlOO would leave for Montreal in the last few days of July, and that ho would himself be making the journey in airship RlOl to India in September. Lord Thomson said he could never see that the flight across the Atlantic from east to west by aeroplane would be a commercial proposition Experts were now in Greenland considering another route and ,he believed their investigations would result in something practical within the next eighteen months or two rears. What a factor that would be in linking the old world with the new when they would be able to go from Croydon to Chicago through Canada in three or four days.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 163, 30 June 1930, Page 6
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