AERIAL LEVIATHANS
BRITISH “R” CRAFT,
PRACTICALLY COMPLETE
TWO YEARS’ CONSTRUCTION
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.32 a.m.) LONDON, August. 21
It is expected that RlOl will be ready at the end of the mouth and RIOO early next month.
For five weeks mechanics have been busy inflating RlOl at the rate of 1,000,000 feet weekly. iSix hundred men and IfiO girls have spent nearly two years in building RIOO, which is already floating in the shed. Today the six engines were successfully tried out. RIOO is structurally the strongest airship in existence. Th© policy of the designers throughout has been to place strength before fierformance.
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Northern Advocate, 22 August 1929, Page 5
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