Airship RIOO Beats All Graf Zeppelin Records
SPEED OF 81$ M.P.H. FLIGHT OF OVER THIRTEEN HOURS. United Press Association. —By Eleetrii Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 17. Tho airship RIOO was moored at Cardington after a 13$ hours’ flight, in which it attained a speed of 81$ miles an hour, which is 11$ miles per hour above tho contract speed. Tho craft beat all the official and unofficial records of the Graf Zeppelin. Outstanding Success of Dominion Aviator ONLY A 1 PASS AT KETTERING LONDON, Jan. 16. Squadron-Leader J. Lloyd Findley, of tho New Zealand Air Force, at -present, training in England, alone obtained an AX certificate out of 32 candidates at the Central Flying School, Kettering.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7120, 18 January 1930, Page 6
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