AERIAL TRAVEL
CAPACIOUS CRAFT.
ACCOMMODATE 150 PERSON* .
INDIA-AUSTRALIA SERVICE,
(Received 10120 a.m.) ' LONDON, July 22. Burney airships will be employed in the services to India and Australia. These huge machines; of .-new pattern, will be. capable of-carrying 150 passengers afr' an: average speed of 80 miles. be able to make a •co'n'tiikuoua flight. of mere -than five days. The'first should be built within eight months. '
The first stage will be to ladia, bringing it within "'6B hours of London, shortening the delivery of Australian mails by ten days. Egypt will be reached in 31 h,ours.
The machincß will have a capacity of 5,000,000. cubic feet, and a length of 760 feet. There will be single berth sleeping cabins for all the passengers, each with a separate entrance from the keel gangway. The saloon will accommodate 60 passengers and the dining room half that complement. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 23 July 1923, Page 5
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